Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night the Paraguayans came over again, four times, but the darkness was not cover enough from the machine guns. Slow learners, they kept it up next day, trotting in solid lines across the plain, across the bodies of their day-old dead. On the fourth day as dusk drew in, the Paraguayan officers led their men in two last desperate charges, as futile as all the others. Thus ended the "Battle of 100 Hours'' at Las Conchitas. The dead...
...professors were as proud of Bob Michelet as his classmates and coaches were. History was his favorite subject but he drew down A's in philosophy, political science, sociology and economics. No aloof paragon, he liked to watch hockey games, play casino, go to the movies, bring girls up to proms and the Winter Carnival. He never missed a chance to lend a fellow athlete a hand with his studies...
Speaking under the auspices of the Harvard Chapter of the League of Evangelical Students, Dr. Edward Payson Drew, professor of Philosophy at Gordon College, will give a talk on "Hindrances to Christian Belief" at 7 o'clock Thursday evening in Phillips Brooks House...
...debt he had forgotten, he got out by swearing a pauper's oath, returned to China followed by such neophyte Buddhists as a French perfumer, a filling station manager, a professor's widow, an Italian composer. Chao Kung opened a monastery of his own, drew crowds with his lectures in Chinese and English. But last year he was still restless. Resolving to carry on his evangelizing in the West, he growled: "I will stand no more nonsense from any government...
Married. Countess Felicia Gizycka, 28, daughter of Eleanor Medill Patterson, editor of the Washington, D. C. Herald; and Dudley de Lavinge, 28, insurance man; in London. Countess Felicia's first husband was Drew Pearson, Washington correspondent...