Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part, the cartoonist is right. But he should not have drawn Mr. Borah lying on his belly. Mr. Borah, when the Charles B. Warren nomination was before the Senate (TIME, Mar. 2), walked quite openly to the side of the Insurgents to oppose the Administration nominee. He boldly led the attack and, but for him, Mr. Warren would probably have been confirmed-his single vote would have been enough to do it at one time. But he encouraged a number of Republicans to side against the nomination; his example woke the Democrats to united opposition that might not have existed...
...Darling or "Ding," who lives in Des Moines and whose cartoons (drawn for the DCS Moines Register) are syndicated throughout...
William Beebe, with his marine expedition aboard the steamship A returns (TIME, Feb. 16, Mar. 9, Mar. 16), having perused the Sargasso Sea amid high waves, and drawn up from great depth small fishes-red, black, silver, transparent, luminous, stalk-eyed, snake-jawed; but being continuously disturbed by high waves which scattered the Sargassum weed, secured in one haul in his last day there five Amphioxii (believed to have been the intermediate stage between invertibrate and vertibrate life). They have a cartilaginous backbone. The value of the catch is that hitherto Amphioxii have seldom been known far from shore...
This subject was proposed by the CRIMSON in order to bring out constructive criticism. That the subject has succeeded in the purpose for which it was drawn up is shown by the titles of the essays it has evoked. By the use of the caption, "What's the Matter with Harvard?" the headline writers of various newspapers have been instrumental in putting the CRIMSON competition in a false light...
...peat thumb-nail sketch of His Excellency's Intellectual fibre, as well as the crude educational level of Tennessee, is drawn later by his own equivocal words--"After a careful examination, I can find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools which this bill would interfere with in the slightest manner. Therefore, it will not put our teachers in any jeopardy. Probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes that it is going to be an active statute...