Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poles under sentence to hang were worried. They know that a noose smartly drawn up (with knot close under one ear of the condemned) will bring instant, pain less death, by snapping the neck. Such have been the nooses of experienced Hangman Maciejewski, a onetime medical student. On the other hand, a loose and slovenly noose brings slow strangulation, lingering agony...
...moments later the royal motor passed slowly over cobble stones still wet with blood drawn by the bomb. A pandemonium of cheering rose about His Majesty: "Viva il Re! . . . Glory to Savoy! [the Royal House] . . . Live! Long live the King...
...other shortcoming in his tabulation is that there are too many exceptions to permit any blanket conclusions being drawn. Most important of these exceptions seem to be the low grade men at college who had the ability to be higher grade. In these cases lower grades cannot be taken as an indications of lack of ability...
...went to the Grill this week with a Harvard 1911 man whom Terry greeted, "Why hello, Ernie, what are you doing here? You belong in Cleveland" which was a fact. Later we drew Terry aside and asked him what mark "Ernie" had drawn in English 45, "A 'B'," said Terry at once, "and Phi Beta Kappa key in his Junior year a good boy that...
...history writing is one which has gone through countless phases. There has been the tribal story handed from generation to generation by word of mouth or drawn on the walls of caves. Later came the sagas of the heros, more myth than fact. Some nations like the Jews have kept great records of their wanderings, but if remained for the last few centuries to make of history a science...