Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles of track and the longest stretch of electrification in the U. S., Milwaukee came out of receivership only eight years ago. Its failure in 1925 was the biggest in U. S. history up to that time. Its costly reorganization set new records for fancy fees and drew a scathing dissenting opinion from three U. S. Supreme Court Justices. With Milwaukee's unsavory record fresh in mind, Author John T. Flynn (Graft in Business, Investment Trusts Gone Wrong) caustically observed last week in the New York World-Telegram...
...Russia's geographic position Author Chamberlin finds the first reasons for the inflexibility of the Tsarist government and the desperation of the revolutionary upheaval. Poised between Europe and Asia, serving for centuries as a barrier between European civilization and Asiatic barbarism, Russia drew her ideas of Western progress and enlightenment from Europe, her form of government from the East. The dilemma of Peter the Great, who tried to evoke initiative by force, who "desired that the slave, remaining a slave, should act consciously and freely," remained to haunt the later Tsars, who dared not concede an inch of freedom...
Over West Virginia back country roads, made muddy by weeks of rain, ploughed a train of automobiles one day last week bearing 49 Catholic priests and Bishop John Joseph Swint of Wheeling. The party drew up before the small churchyard at Sand Fork. Forming in procession, the men of God marched into the church. There Bishop Swint solemnly handed purple robes, a purple biretta and a white lace cotta (surplice) to a wrinkled-faced, white-haired old priest named Thomas Aquinas Quirk whom Pope Pius XI had elected to invest with the title Monsignor...
...whole South had a much more bitter pill to swallow, this time coated with no Yankee sugar. Clarence Cason was a native son, able head of the department of journalism at the University of Alabama, and respectfully regarded by his fellow-Tuscaloosans. In 90° in the Shade he drew a biting "psychograph" of the South. Even unreconstructed Southerners admitted that its lines paralleled the facts but called it a graphic misrepresentation...
...Vagabond looked ahead and the enchantment of the distant hills drew him. There in mysterious mauve hollows was--he knew not what--but surely more beauty than this grim valley. He began his ascent toiling over brown rocks that slipped and twisted his feet. A small snake whipped across his path and twinkled away scarcely stirring the loose earth. There were no violet hollows, only shadows blotted against the cliff walls by clouds...