Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scandalously good, so good, in fact, that it should be read behind drawn shades and with a watcher posted outside on lookout for the police...
Last year the need was strongly felt or vocal talent in order to give a more balanced program. With the permission of President Lowell and Dr. Davison, a vocal unit was established as a part of the Instrumental Clubs and a new constitution was drawn up to encompass the three units under a single organization...
...report which Dr. Kirkpatrick has drawn up composes what is probably the most thorough treatise on this subject ever written. Dr. Kirkpatrick is by no means antagonistic to the management of the University, but he points out many respects in which he believes its government might be improved. He stresses most the difference between a faculty government and that of a non-resident corporation such as is now in force, and declares that this system might be improved by faculty control...
...question of whether or no Britain is to replace sterling on a gold basis has drawn businessmen, bankers, economists and others into a keen controversy. Recently, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald McKenna and the sensational John Maynard Keynes were called to the bar of the House of Lords to give their views on the gold question. Mr. McKenna was in favor of resuming gold pay ments; not so Mr. Keynes. The latter, has by now developed an instinctive hatred of anything suggestive of currency and price deflation. Revision to a gold standard, he says, would merely render Britain subservient...
...helicopter, which is to achieve the same end with far less complication. The cables tell us little except that the device is of insignificant volume, weighs only 16 pounds and is adapted to the interior of the engine. A plausible guess is that the device increases the air (oxygen) drawn into the cylinder...