Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wages drawn from capital or from the product of the labor for which they are paid...
...article on the baseball outlook at Harvard which appeared in the Boston Evening Record of Thursday, and which was presumably written by a Harvard student, is as contemptible a piece of journalism as is often seen. A conglomeration of distorted or utterly fictitious interviews, with ingenious inferences drawn by the writer, the article in question is not only highly discreditable to a paper which should certainly be able to secure for itself reliable correspondence, but is a disgrace to the man who is willing, for considerations of "space," to throw away all considerations of college loyalty and to envelope college...
...meeting of the New York Athletic Club Monday evening, of the Graduates' Committee of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association and a committee of prominent members of the Amateur Athletic Union, was long drawn out, yet at its conclusion it was said that there was nothing to give out. The conference was held to talk over the proposed alliance of the two athletic bodies...
Many important facts regarding the distribution of plants and the relationships of our species to those of more favored climates were presented by the lecturer, and a comparison was drawn between our attractive spring flowers and the flowers in the tropics. The comparison left no doubt that in point of attractive coloring, the flowers of temperate regions far excel those of the equatorial belt. The gorgeous highly-colored orchids of the tropics are comparatively rare, and the most brilliant are in secluded nooks or cling as epiphytes to the higher branches of the loftiest trees, well out of sight...
...meeting of the committee of the Shooting Club on the series of handicap shoots, held yesterday afternoon, the following conditions were drawn...