Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jazz orchestras will grind out Ave Maria and searchlights will play on a statue of the Virgin placed high on Cape Trinity by an habitant grateful for his recovery after a fall through the Saguenay's ice. Then the whistles will sound, while passengers marvel at the long-drawn echoes between Capes Trinity and Eternity-what Christopher Morley called "Yowling a klaxon at Eternity...
World Without Visa , is one of those many-leveled books that sometimes appears to have half a dozen plots, and sometimes none at all. Dozens of sharply drawn characters move through it, their lives intertwined in frantic quests for visas, underground resistance, concentration-camp ordeals, involved political discussions and harried interludes of personal life. With a strong awareness of social gradations, Author Malaquais shows Marseille under the Vichy regime as divided into four groups: the scum, the innocents, the resisters, and the victims...
...television "camera," a lens focuses a picture of the scene on a light-sensitive coating inside the pickup tube's front end. Electrons fly off. They are focused on a thin glass plate, each knocking off several more electrons, which are gathered up by a charged screen and drawn out of the tube...
...College Scene was initiated as an attempt to examine and evaluate the academic and social environment of the individual in Harvard College. Previous editorials have undertaken a preliminary examination. From these editorials conclusions are now to be drawn; these conclusions, in turn, will form the basis for recommendations...
Marks and Littell, it was charged, also set up an intermediary company in Switzerland and wrote themselves letters showing Hyalsol heavily in debt to the Swiss company. The royalties collected in the U.S. were turned over as payments on this fictitious debt, said the grand jury, and drawn out by Henkel, thus avoiding U.S. income taxes...