Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hence many are thankful for the sabers which, according to the dispatches, will be drawn in threatening swordplay between two high officials of the Polish government. Were the custom to be followed in the United States, duels, lineally descended from the Burr-Hamilton affair of the early Republic, would settle insurgent politics. A single snick of a rapier in the dawn might prove an effective cloture rule for Senate debate...
...accordingly announced that, since Krim technically "rebelled" against the Sultan of Morocco at Fez instead of "attacking" France and Spain, the Sultan must decide his fate. As everyone knows, Sultan Mulai Yusef of Morocco is a mere puppet of the French. His "decision," unannounced last week, was presumably being drawn up at Paris by officials well informed of M. Steeg's reputed agreements...
...directors were deaf even to the pleas of the charming Leginska, who had been canvassing for subscriptions. Would the People's Symphony survive the crisis? That question was answered last week by the announcement that there would be next season a new orchestra?its 100-odd members to be drawn from the old?to be known as the Boston Philharmonic, Ethel Leginska its permanent conductor...
...Probably no better evidence of an improved atmosphere in the School could be offered than the records of the library itself, which show that there was in 1922-23 a sudden increase of nearly 40 per cent in the number of books, periodicals and pamphlets drawn out from the library as compared with the previous years and the number in 1924-25 was over 97 per cent greater than in 1921-22 or any previous year. Not all of this is due to the new methods, but that the major part of it is, seems reasonably clear...
...expressed in the phrase of the over-excited substitute: "Why, sir, I'd die for dear old Rutgers" is a sign that the attitude of the University in regard to athletics is well advanced in a metamorphosis that no one can regret. It is not that undergraduates are being drawn out of an interest in athletics: It is rather that their interest is being transferred from a false dependence on a single phase of education...