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Word: drew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Outcault drew his last Buster Brown ten years ago, but the boy lived in the syndicates until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of Outcault | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...travel drew a step closer to rail travel when Mr. & Mrs. D. J. Sullivan in St. Paul, Minn., bought a ticket for Rochester, Minn., climbed into a plane, enjoyed the scenery for an hour, inquired about landing time. "Rochester!" exclaimed the one addressed. "Why you're on the plane for Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Flyers: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Phelps is put first because he is a New York Assemblyman and thereby the political senior of Mrs. Pratt, who is only a New York City Alderman (albeit the first New York woman alderman in history). He is also put first because he drew top place on the ballot, after performing a "luck rite." Just before the drawing, he rushed out of the Board of Elections office and touched a Negro on the shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Phelps-Pratt | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...sleek pony stretched his neck, drew back his body, shook at the withers, coughed. Soon many another pony was coughing. There was consternation in the Long Island stables wherein were quartered the ponies, for the cough-claque lessened the chances of victory for the Argentine polo team, ready to battle a U. S. four for the championship of the Americas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fours | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...violence. Gould had the Midas-touch. He transmuted the most unlikely stuff into gold. But in the transmuting he took from it all life and beauty, left it deflowered and pitiful. Said pleasure-loving Jim Fisk: "Gould lets everyone carry out his own corpse." Said pious, ruthless Daniel Drew: "His touch is as death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Midas-Touch | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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