Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair's personal attorney and the man for whom he named his famed racehorse "Zev", conducted all the early negotiations for the Teapot lease. Then Sinclair went with Zevely to Fall's office (according to Fall) and protested he would lose money the way the lease was drawn. In the end he signed it "reluctantly...
...Secretary of State. These two statesmen were in perfect accord, some months ago, when L'Action Française and all other works of its editors were placed on the Catholic Index Expurgatorius. Still more were they in accord, last week, when the dread weapon of excommunication was drawn against the incorrigible Royalists...
...this has been going on, and continues, here in Massachusetts. At Williams the Junior Student Council has decided to eliminate bootleggers. Its members have drawn their first blood by confiscating a car as its owner delivered liquor to the inhabitants of a dormitory. They have brought the matter before the law, and now the court is to pronounce judgment upon the dealer. The case hangs fire, while those concerned with the fate of bootleggers and of student councils watch, intrigued. Whether it is nobler to suffer in silence, or to take arms against this move--that is the question...
...function of the Deputations, Committee is two-fold: first, contacts are made with different agencies such as churches, schools and Y. M. C. A.'s, and a schedule of trips is drawn up for the year; second, representative men in college are made acquainted with the work and opportunity is given for them to take part. Friendship is the basis of these trips, but in addition there is a view to stimulating an interest in college, all around development, and Christian living...
James Ward Packard was 30 years old when he began to make automobiles. Before that he had experimented with electrical devices and organized two companies to manufacture them. In 1893, having studied the motor plans of Daimler and Benz and the body-building methods of Levasseur, he had drawn the plans for the first Packard; the financial depression of the next few years prevented him from manufacturing cars for the several years afterward. It was not until 1899 that the first Packard rolled out upon the roads, a high, sloping car, followed by children and stared at by scornful farmers...