Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nucleus for the squad will be formed by some 60 men drawn largely from last year's University. Freshman and class crew squads, and these will all report today. In addition a quantity of new material is expected which should swell the total attendance to well over a hundred. Work on the machines will start tomorrow with practice on the river scheduled to start shortly thereafter. A cut is contemplated in about a week, three crews to be retained and the rest relegated to positions on the class and 150-pound squads...
History shows that movements for ameliorating the state of society have generally drawn their inspiration and first impetus from Youth. And by the same token these movements, on account of the impatience and lack of wisdom of their prime movers, have more often than not fallen on stony ground and come to naught. According to Mr. Rothschild's article in the present issue the Youth of Europe are now prosecuting with vigor such a movement toward renovation of their economic states. Apparently the movement has thus far no coherence beyond a kind of common program which is made up more...
...nine men received degrees. Last year the school graduated 163. With the increase in enrollment throughout the past years has come an increase in facilities. A new building was opened last March and plans are now being made for still further expansion. Preliminary drafts of new buildings are being drawn and efforts will be made this winter to raise the money necessary for their construction...
...shops and business houses open. . . . As I expected, the city itself shows evidences of disrepair. I saw no new buildings under construction, but numerous old buildings are undergoing repair. Many of the ill-paved streets are in the hands of contractors, who are restoring them. The thousands of horse-drawn droshkys, which correspond to our cabs of other days, and hundreds of small but loaded vehcles , emphasize that there is life in this city...
Pictures are drawn for the avid imaginations of magazine readers of tiny citizens absurdly caparisoned in velvet and plumes waiting daily for a director who requires the patter of little feet about the house to motivate his final clinch. Though there are laws which insist upon the education of movie children, we are led to believe that the education is scattered thinly through sessions before the blinding Kleig lights and interrupted by the hammering of carpenters and the yammering of stars...