Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budget (of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences), which has been drawn up for presentation to the Corporation," the Provost stated, "preliminary figures show a deficit of about $651,000 for next year, and that would seem to indicate that some increase in tuition is very definitely in line...
...acutely sensitive to criticism and impatient with opposition, has guarded his position as Japan's ruler by a tight censorship, designed to maintain his dignity, and thus the dignity of the U.S. As the first reaction to the candidacy began to filter back to Japan, the censorship was drawn tighter for both the Japanese press and U.S. Army publications...
...Soviet Union (he never fired a shot), Hero of Socialist Labor (he never swung a pick), Member of the Politburo. He is a steady, quiet type who .has a wife, two children and a suburban villa to which he commutes in a Packard -with the shades always drawn...
Western civilization's case history as drawn up by Dr. Halliday shows political and cultural symptoms, too: "social fragmentation," revealed by a rash of class warfare; increasing "intrusion of manifestations of the primitive and visceral," with "love becoming no longer sacramental but excremental"; a decline in religious faith, and loss of man's sense of his origins and destiny...
After the first World War, when horse-drawn trolleys were finally junked, the building was purchased by several businessmen and completely rebuilt into a large cafeteria. Its present pale-red shutters and rusty-iron awning belie the former elegance of an eating place that fed over 2000 people...