Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve million dollars in prizes was poured out at Madrid last week when the national lottery for 1926 was drawn. The Government had pocketed $5,000,000 of the $17,000,000 paid in; and the one supremely lucky ticket would win $2,500,000. Pandemonium reigned and hope held carnival with chance within the great treasury building, where the lots were drawn...
...turned the two latticed metal globes upon which all depended. First he spun the great ticket globe, from which, as it stopped, a single lucky ticket fell. Then the smaller prize globe spun, revealed which of the 2,596 prizes had been won by the individual lucky ticket just drawn...
...present Mexican Government was described as "a product of new paganism." Finally it was asserted that the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico: 1) has carried on most of the educational, relief and hospital work which has been done in that country; 2) has not drawn undue wealth from the people...
...arranged that its scholars cannot help giving an impression of aloofness from the troubles of the outside world. A number of able professors in the political science department at Columbia have recently made an attempt to show that they are not disconnected from actualities. They have drawn up an effective and sound criticism of the war debts settlements, hoping in doing this to attract the attention of the administration and the people to some of the errors of the present arrangement. Their criticism is constructive. They are not merely abstract thinkers trying to bring their principles before the public...
...passing of the "47 Workshop" there has been a desire to give plays by undergraduates a fair chance at production, but to dare the attempts of the Dramatic Club have been unsuccessful. It is planned to run these group meetings as informally as possible. No definite outline has been drawn up but at the preliminary meeting this evening at 7 o'clock in 26 Thayer Hall south country, the views and opinions of all men interested in this sort of activity will be given fair consideration...