Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York dry leaders to draw Senator Borah into the prohibition war in New York state. For there the issues are more clear cut than elsewhere and demand the services of experienced war horses. The issues which portend confusion for the next presidential campaign have, in the Empire state, been drawn to a head. Whereas the present concern with prohibition has been accentuated in all states by the Coolidge order bringing state officials into Federal revenue service, in New York there are two definite questions confronting the combatants. The one involves the popular referendum contemplated in that state. The other...
...carrying the trophy back to New Jersey, is building a now team and the Harvard quartet is always stronger on turf than on tanbark. Winners last year, the Crimson poloists will return to the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club this month favored to furnish heavy opposition. A bye has been drawn by the Cambridge outfit in the first round, leaving Princeton as its most likely opponent before the final round...
...square of water, as blue as a banner, a liquid panel like a window into star-space, it dreams, moveless, in the white tile floor. Drawn up against walls patterned less purely with tiles of ochre and green and ruby, naked attendants in breech clouts wait to knead and oil the bathers in the hot rooms, steam rooms, medicated rooms, therapeutic rooms beyond...
With newspaper drama and the bathtub bogie thus working in Mr. Carroll's defense, the conviction is more than a usual triumph for the forces of justice. Somehow, the district attorney's cause must have drawn strength from the legions of parents who made their children go back to wash again...
...Setting. The bill was drawn up in conference between the railroad unions and executives of some of the railways (TIME, Jan. 18, RAILWAYS). The unions indorsed it wholeheartedly. The railway executives' association gave it majority support. The President in his message to Congress had said that such a bill was in process of preparation and recommended favorable consideration. He later announced, however, that the bill was not to be considered an administration measure. It was passed by the House (TIME, March 15, CONGRESS) but in the Senate met a stubborn resistance. The minority of the railway executives...