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Word: drew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the water . . . going at the swimming man, and there was a scream and he was dragged down. We drew ourselves up further on the keel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Peten's Passenger | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...play opens in cheerless Cottage D of a midwestern reform school. Onto this scene is led a collection of small, wary ruffians: Little Deadman ("He won't let nobody touch him"); pudgy Pieface; Horsethief, whose malady is obscure and horrid. Poison mean is Roy Wells (John Drew Colt), ringleader of the potato-peeling "Centipede's Club." Robert Locket (Edwin Philips) is the most sensitive young prisoner, a fact which early bodes him ill. In him Mrs. Sanger, wife of the weak cottage supervisor, takes a strange and unnatural interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 8, 1933 | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...meeting of the Boston Branch of the Association was held at Phillips Brooks House on April 13, which drew up a program calling for free admission to graduate school courses, free use of the Library stacks, free use of athletic facilities, and aid to unemployed members of reunion classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOBLESS GRADUATES OF COLLEGES TO CONVENE | 5/2/1933 | See Source »

...shrewdly calculated excitement, he greatly won. He lost money at more than $10,000 per month for nearly two years-and then got it back to spend over again even faster. He toured Europe intermittently (with a camera) and dreamed expanding dreams. Once, crossing San Francisco Bay, he drew rings around the country's great cities and said to his mercurial employe George Pancoast: "Some day, a paper here and here and here." Around New York he drew a double ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

That the Brown Herald drew a large amount of criticism upon itself by its recent anti-war ballot was due to the fact that so many members of the student body were definitely of the conviction that war was an inexcusably absurd method of setting international differences of opinion. The same attitude was responsible for the declaration on the part of Oxford, Edinburgh, and other British university student bodies to the effect that they would under no circumstances go to war for "king and country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Today We Live | 4/21/1933 | See Source »

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