Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lodgings in the American Embassy at Mexico City, the President nominated Charles Beecher Warren, 53 -three years to the day older than Mr. Fletcher-of Detroit. The post was recently recreated when the Administration recognized Mexico after a lapse of diplomatic relations since May, 1920. New conventions were drawn up last summer (TIME, Aug. 27). The two commissioners who negotiated the conventions for the U.S. were John Barton Payne and Mr. Warren...
...pointed out in this column that with the present varying systems of grading an A means one thing in one course, and something else in another. By taking certain courses, probation can be easily avoided, whereas in others, a large proportion of each class is necessarily doomed. The conclusion drawn from all this is that grades cannot possibly be fairly used for determining anything of consequence, such as scholarships or probation-since there is no system of grading which can possibly he applied with justice to every course...
...state carriage, drawn by high-stepping horses made its way through the streets of Paris, eliciting much comment and wonder from the onlookers...
Since Homer wrote of the heroic feats of unhappy Achilles and of the exploits of the ingenious Odysseus, history has drawn its heroes from the great. The mere nod of a mighty king was of more account to historians than all the people of his kingdom. The era of democracy in history has just begun, and evidently John Buchan is its prophet...
Pablo Casals is almost universally acknowledged as the greatest violoncellist alive. Kreisler went so far as to call him the "greatest musician that has ever drawn a bow." His numbers tonight will include, in addition to two obligatos for the Glee Club, Tartini's "Concerto in D," and Beethoven's "Seven Variations on a Theme by Mozart." The most notable of the Glee Club's numbers will be "Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee," from Bach's "Sleepers Wake...