Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosecution of Sam Kaplan, deposed boss of Manhattan's Local 306 of the Motion Picture Machine Operators' Union, for coercion (expelling carpers who wanted an accounting of union funds from which Kaplan drew a $21,800 salary and "gifts") (TIME, Dec. 12); conviction; in Manhattan...
...saying, both drew their daggers, bared their stomachs, made clumsy efforts to commit harakiri. Pouncing police grabbed both bunglers before they had much harmed themselves, bundled them off to jail, announced, "they will both recover." Meanwhile a party of friends of the two men (whose names police kept secret) were busy with a hunger strike against the income tax evasions, had not eaten for more than a week...
...Wooden a year ago. Ohio State's 6-ft.-4-in. Centre Hosket is a less spectacular player but he has had plenty of time to polish plays with his two forwards. Brown and Colburn, who played with him in high school. Last fortnight Ohio State and Iowa drew a conference record crowd of 9,500 at Iowa City; at Iowa, basketball outdrew football this year...
Spurring full speed on a shaggy Mongolian pony, War Lord Tang flourished his repeating rifle, drew bead on a stationary target, riddled its bulls-eye with lead. ''Marshal Tang is also a dead pistol shot," boasted one of his officers. "He shoots with his left hand, with his right and with both hands at once...
...opening day, and that it would be expedient, therefore, to admit a somewhat larger number without undue risk of exceeding the established quota. The Committee gave careful consideration to this suggestion, and while withdrawals were received during the summer as in previous years as the day of registration drew near a number of such withdrawals were canceled because the candidates had received aid from some unexpected source or because the financial burden seemed to have been lifted through gradually improving conditions in individual cases...