Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanting among American colleges, political issues can seldom arouse any distinct enthusiasm. Such an organization as the Model League of Nations meets with little undergraduate response, and this year a large university like Yale did not have sufficient interest to even participate. A presidential parade may occasionally draw out the students in numbers, but a love of excitement is undoubtedly the chief attraction. Whatever the condition of the country's politics, the average undergraduate is usually far more occupied by other concerns...
...council of the Order to be formed in the U. S. Among reputed founders is Godfrey de Bouillon, a leader in the first crusade which wrested (1099) Jerusalem from the "Infidels." The 13 candidates prepared to kneel in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, be given spurs and sword, draw sword and be tapped on the shoulder with it, in true medieval fashion. Most socialite of the thirteen knights: Kenneth O'Brien, son-in-law of Knight of Malta Clarence Hungerford Mackay...
...significance of such an exhibition is no matter of more passing interest. Not only will it draw the attention of those with an aesthetic appreciation for beautiful forms, but also it should have a limitless value to those who are interested in history and the progress of the human race. Rather than being written in the pages of lengthy volumes, a tale of history is here told in finely worked precious metal and gems explaining more tersely and no less clearly how the people in the dawn of civilization speculated on the phenomena of nature. One does not need...
...right lead. Midget's eye closed. Comatose spectators booed, clapped for action. Once Genaro, swinging a right, missed and fell down. It was the only down of the fight. When it was over one judge voted for Wolgast, one for Genaro; the referee called it a draw. Lustily reviled, the two champions left the ring, still champions...
...results of measuring the speeds of nebulae were sensational. The last to be investigated was found to be receding from us at a rate of 26,000,000 miles per hour. . . . The material universe appears to be passing away like a tale that is told. . . ." The voice continued to draw a picture of cosmic destruction. Although there are as many stars as raindrops falling on a wet London day, the universe now is almost empty. Our small earth is "like a ship on an empty ocean." "Leave only three wasps alive in the whole of Europe and Europe will...