Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frame '30, of New York, senior singles title holder of last year, retained his championship in the closing and perhaps closest race of the afternoon, when after having caught a crab at the start, he drew up to the front and sped across the finish line of the short 300-yard sprint. He was closely followed by J. G. Park, who had qualified for this race by winning the men's Novice Singles, and by S. D. Peirce '32, Frame's time of 1 minute and 1 second is short only three seconds of his record time of last year...
...army to arrive, its director, Dr. Charles Trick Currelly, called the colorful collection "effective anti-war propaganda. . . . Just as in arms and armor the diabolical nature of the whole thing is revealed, so we will show the public how Napoleon's gay uniforms and the romance he drew around war brought entire battalions to their slaughter. . . ." (In 1930 German Nazi collectors of toy soldiers called toy soldiers "the best of all means for fostering thought of preparedness and counteracting the weak-kneed pacifism so prevalent in Germany these days...
...Tethys Deep" was bridged by Central America was indicated by Yale's Dr. Hellmut de Terra. With the cooling and shrinking of earth's underlying shell of magmatic (semifluid) rock, the northern and southern land masses drew toward each other. Pinched between them, the bottom of the "Tethys Deep" wrinkled, bulged upward, finally, as the pressure increased, emerged from the water to form a bridge...
...drew moistly on the pipe...
...drives out of court, angled his volleys past the sidelines. Then, the speed of his game lowered by Auteuil's slow clay and the slow French balls, he tried to match Austin's gentle, foxy placements. The net seemed to reach out for his drives; the baseline drew in for his lobs. He made 92 errors in the course of the match. When Austin was ahead, two sets, 5-4 and 40-15, Vines make a magnificent kill at the net. It looked then for one moment as though he might still recover his form and pull...