Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over there with the letter-carriers," he explained, and I entered hesitantly, irresistibly drawn to the place, but almost afraid to stay...
...funeral was one of great simplicity. His coffin was laid on a gun carriage, covered with the Tricolor and drawn first to the Chapelle des Invalides, then to the Cemetery of Montparnasse...
...present time there are 26 theories of color vision held by scientists and physicians. Experiments which attempt a psychological explanation of the ocular mechanism have been very drawn out, and as yet not altogether conclusive. Progress in experimentation upon the retina of the eye with a sensitive vacuum tube amplifier connected to a recording galvanometer has been unusually rapid...
Ballooning is the most fascinating and skilful of sports. Yet it is more than a sport. It requires the most careful study of meteorology and gas buoyancy. From the balloonists are drawn the most skilful airship pilots and operators...
Though I am unable to point to an Alma Mater of my own, recent facts and figures demonstrate that the trained and logical thinker in the executive's chair is being drawn more and more from the ranks of college men. This is particularly true of bank and railroad presidents. There is no reason why it should not be equally true of elective or appointive political places. When candidates for and incumbents of such offices are not made the victims of shameless abuse and willful misrepresentation, we may find more college and university men entering public life...