Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attention has been drawn to the fact that you have used the title of one of my father's most famous books, A Study in Scarlet, for the page heading of a book review [TIME, Nov. 22]. I would suggest that it would have been a courteous, if customary, gesture to have included a note of acknowledgment at the foot of the page...
...morning last week a C82 lifted from a runway at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., carrying a load of paratroopers for a practice jump. A flock of starlings, startled from the trees, swept across its nose. They were drawn in by the thrashing propellers. The carburetor air intakes of both engines suddenly became choked with dead birds, the engines faltered. Pilot Robert Kilpatrick shouted to a crewman to push the jump bell...
Every year since 1937, 39-year-old Fridolin had written, backed, directed and starred in a revue called Fridolinons, a collection of skits, songs and dances. With it he had toured his native Quebec, drawn some 130,000 people a season, netted an annual profit of about $50,000. Tit-Cog was Fridolin's first try at writing a full-length play...
...score for a film on Lenin, had managed to "reorganize" themselves. Other composers had begun "to rebuild their work," although "the process of their reconstruction proceeds slowly." But Prokofiev's work still smelled of the "marazm [wasting away] of bourgeois culture." Said Khrennikov: Prokofiev obviously had not "drawn the necessary conclusions from the decree of the Central Committee...
Over 80,000 volumes have been moved into the new library from Widener, Boylston, and Union reading rooms. Lists of books for the library were drawn up from the reading lists of major undergraduate courses and plans for college reading...