Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inaction: as the Queen-Empress was operating an ironing machine, the mechanism suddenly went dead. One more half turn of the heated rollers would have drawn between them and crushed Her Majesty's fingers...
...next game was a draw and the third Capablanca won. The games that followed were all played with a Queen's Gambit and most of them were drawn; but Capablanca won the 7th and the 29th, Alekhine the 11th, 12th and 32nd. Last week the two men sat down to play the 34th game. Capablanca, with the score 5-3 against him, looked sulky. The Russian, with one game to win, looked meditative & nervous...
...international bankers. Therefore those who attended the American Acceptance Council meeting in Manhattan last week applauded when Governor Young explained the new leniency of the Federal Reserve Board: "Bankers' acceptances may properly be considered as growing out of transactions involving the importation or exportation of goods when drawn for the purpose of financing the sale and distribution on usual credit terms of imported or exported goods into the channels of trade, whether or not the bills are accepted after the physical importation or exportation has been completed...
...Budget as drawn up by the Student Council calls for the disbursement of the $12,000 pledged. Of this amount $5000 was collected during registration at the opening of College. The rest of the total was represented by promises of the students to pay their pledges before December 1. Returns have been very slow and unless the speed with which they are reaching the committee increases markedly, both the Student Council and the other organizations supported by the fund will be forced to carry on their activities under financial embarrassment...
Next Wednesday, a president and secretary will be elected so that the affairs of the League may be organized and schedules drawn...