Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pool is run on a club basis, dues to which are $1,00 per week. Membership brings with it the purely incidental privilege of drawing lots of the baseball clubs in the National and American Leagues. The member who happens to draw the club making the greatest number of runs for the week receives a prize of $5,00. In addition to this weekly stipend there are daily prizes...
...Delaware would seriously damage its interests. Pennsylvania, mindful of Philadelphia's future water needs, joined the fray. To Special Master Charles Newell Burch of Memphis the Supreme Court referred the case for hearing. Last February Mr. Burch in his report advised the Court to allow New York to draw 440,000,000 gal. per day from the upper Delaware (about one-sixth of its average flow) provided it constructed plants to eliminate sewage and industrial waste from the river below the diversion...
...Bright, N. J. He argued that New York City should get its water from the Hudson River valley, good for another 100 years, and not leap out of bounds to injure other States. Pennsylvania's counsel asked protection against the day when Philadelphia would "stop drinking purified sewage" and draw fresh water from the Delaware...
...Race, president of the Boston Hotel Mens' association has also urged the mayor to allow the intersectional clash, which means more revenue for the hotels, declaring that neither of the attractions would draw from the other...
...kite is to draw upon a bank account in which there is at the moment less money than the draft. Example: Perhaps Col. Lea one day deposited in Liberty Bank a check of $1,000,000 drawn against a Missouri bank. Properly speaking, he would have had no money in Liberty Bank until the check had been cleared. But his good friend Mr. Donnell might have let him draw $500,000 against the deposit at once, thus kiting. If at the same time he in reality had no money in the Missouri bank but had merely deposited there a check...