Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours; it has helped with the appointments to the Freshman smoker committee; and it has arranged the class elections. Of these accomplishments, the first was not revealed to the public, the second was a necessary but minor task, and the third is and has been so mismanaged as to draw endless criticism on the heads of those connected with it. The Council's annual report which is now being drawn up is its one real contribution, in most years, and even that is sometimes not made public...
...citizens who bought United Kingdom pound sterling bonds before September, 1931 have been getting depreciated currency payments along with His Majesty's subjects since Britain went off gold. In December 1931. Banker Thomas William Lament, appearing before a Senate committee, made this observation: "One has to draw a very sharp distinction between the external obligations of any government, payable in the currencies on the markets where those obligations are issued and their own internal obligations. On their internal obligations they have a right to tax the people until the issue is out of existence, almost." Heartless Contracts. Here & there...
...sports which most foreigners identify with Mexico are second-rate bullfighting and revolutions. This is a gross injustice. Proud, excitable and much less torpid than they are reputed to be. Mexicans are ardent sportsmen, although they have invented no game of their own. Mexican boxing matches draw big crowds. Pelota (jai alai) gave rise to the game of fronton tennis, played with rackets instead of cestas. Yale's football coach, Reginald Root, got his experience coaching the first Mexico City University team which was good enough last year to hold Louisiana to 30 points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams...
Mickey Mouse's creator, Walter ("Walt") Disney is a slim, sharp-faced young man (31) of Irish-German descent. His father, a contractor, let him study drawing for a few months at the Chicago Art Institute before the family moved to Kansas City. He spent six years of his childhood on a Missouri farm watching the animal ancestors of Mickey's pals. In school he early learned the schoolboy trick of drawing figures on the margins of his textbooks, graduating the poses on succeeding pages so that when he flipped the leaves rapidly, the figures seemed to move...
...strikers have been out for more than seven weeks, and they staged the parade hoping to draw the attention of the citizens of Cambridge to their situation. The Harvard Liberal Club has become interested in the case, and in last night's meeting a committee was appointed to provide shelter and food for those who need such...