Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Architect Johnson appointed a corps of plumbing, heating, brick and carpentry inspectors who drew $75 per week from the city. Their official work was not heavy and he saw to it that they were men who could carry their election districts. With the aid of this political organization he was able to stave off efforts to cancel his contract in 1905, 1913, 1916, 1932, was even able to get contracts for other city jobs. When a hostile administration hired another architect to build a hospital unit, Johnson sued, made the city...
Because Comte Fernand de Brinon is a personal friend of onetime French Premier Edouard Daladier, his interview with Chancellor Hitler drew a direct comment from the French Foreign Office: "We are ready to talk through Ambassadors. The question is whether Chancellor Hitler is willing to submit to supervision of the armaments we know he is building. We are willing to learn the answer through diplomatic channels...
Because distance is easier to determine than direction, first guesses had the quake almost everywhere-in Mexico, in Siberia, in the Black Sea, in the mid-Pacific. Finally, when the earthquake men were able to co-ordinate distances reported by several stations, their eyes popped. The circles they drew all intersected in Baffin Bay, between Greenland and northeast Canada. Never before had a major quake occurred within the Arctic Circle west of Greenland. If the epicentre had been in a populous area, observed the seismologists, the loss of life & property would have been tremendous...
...Princess Anne, Md. (TIME, Oct. 30): refusal by Somerset County State's Attorney John B. Robins to arrest nine members of the lynching mob identified by eyewitnesses, at the request of Maryland's Attorney General William Preston Lane Jr. who said he "even drew maps showing what they did and where they were." Reason for the refusal: "I don't believe those men would stay in jail. I believe a crowd would form and take them away...
...reporter poked around the grim dressing room and drew another remark out of the actor. "Right, you've got to be careful what you say and do. You're just one among several millions of attentive germs on concrete space, and audiences as well as actors (with a chuckle) are 60 to 40 per cent ego, which is 40 to 60 per cent vanity and the substance of our existence...