Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stopped work, even for a minute. If anyone walked too slowly, a hippopotamus whip in the hands of a military overseer snaked out to draw blood...
Near Sanford, N. C., Mrs. Alton Jourdon, 26, who expected to have a baby in another month, last week went to the well in her farmyard to draw water. "When I bent over the well," she said after an accident which drew newspaper attention throughout the nation, "everything went black. The next thing I remember was being in the cold water, trying to keep afloat. Soon there were two of us, and I had to keep...
Because Russian choruses generally draw big audiences, Manager Sol Hurok ran little risk when he imported the Moscow singers, sent them out to tour. But risks have never frightened that ebullient impresario who arrived in the U. S. 32 years ago, knowing no English and with less than $2 in his pocket. Young Sol Hurok peddled needles & pins, worked in a mattress factory, a bottle factory, a crockery store, heard music whenever he could. When a Brooklyn charity wanted to give a series of concerts Sol Hurok undertook to engage the artists. At 21 he rented huge Madison Square Garden...
...Francisco, mortgage bondholders on St. Mary's College, which has been largely supported by its football team, talked gloomily of foreclosing. A 13-to-0 victory against University of San Francisco made it look as if this year's team may draw enough to help pay the interest, keep St. Mary's going...
Though outrushed through a large part of the game Harvard showed two flashes of particular brilliance in the first and third periods which were each good for a goal and almost brought a draw...