Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Piquant also are the recently announced terms under which 3,000 rifles have been sold by the U. S. War Department for $6 each to the Conservative Nicaraguan Government of President Adolfo Diaz (recognized by the U.S.). The contract is so drawn that even if the Liberal Nicaraguan Government of President Juan Sacasa (recognized by Mexico) should be returned at the next Nicaraguan election it will have to finance payment for these arms (now being used to fight it by the Conservatives...
Although several causes contribute to this cosmopolitanism, that which has had the most effect is probably the Business School which since its creation has drawn men from other colleges and universities all over the country. This, with the Law School has come to be a truly national character. And Harvard College is progressing in the same direction, under the stimulus of the "higher seventh" entrance method, a system especially calculated to attract men from western and southern high schools...
...really got what she wanted. The story of a war of independence is marred by the inability of Author Jordan to raise a real issue between the behavior of eccentric people and that of normal ones. While the normal ones are not brilliantly depicted, the eccentrics are so clumsily drawn that Dorinda, had she been a reader of the book instead of a character in it, would have been sure that they were not real. Yet Elizabeth Jordan is far from inept. Occasionally there are breezy paragraphs, her minor figures live, Bumper Product
...display this week in the Widener Memorial Room are many works of William Blake. Among these are three original watercolor drawings: "America, a Prophesy", drawn by him, and for some unknown reason never published; Death's Door", and "The Union of the Soul and Body...
...book, "Night Thoughts", written by Edward Young, with illustrations drawn by Blake is of especial interest because it is one of the very few ever colored by him. "The Book of Job" and other Biblical books illustrated by Blake are also in the showcases this week...