Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor of the Premier, and there Ambassador Tytus Filipowicz of Poland seized him by the buttonhole. Mr. Borah is no man to retreat. He repeated his opinions on the Polish Corridor, but added by way of diplomacy that he did not pretend to be completely informed. Ambassador Filipowicz drew himself up in his diplomatic uniform, with all his decorations jangling, and made the retort courteous: "I congratulate you, Senator, on your moral courage-in admitting the incompleteness of your knowledge...
...Russell's former instructor had an effective last word. "I see now what Socrates would have said, as he drew his cloak about him, in the conclusion of the missing dialogue; 'I understand now, my dear Bertrand, the meaning of meaning is that my mouth is watering...
Mary Fontanna of Caruthers, Calif., thrice winner of the Pacific coast championship. She drew 146.1 Ib. in ten 3-min periods. The race was nip-&-tuck; it was only by her decimal fraction that Mary Fontanna beat Gloria Miller of Pacific...
...away Civil Guards grew tired of slapping thousands of citizens back from the National Assembly with the flats of their sabres, began brutally to slash, drew blood. Back & back the mob surged like a great wounded beast, but did not disperse, stayed to raise conflicting shouts of "Down with the Church!" and "Long live Christ the King...
...Wood who examined it minutely, passed it for further scrutiny to her sister, Miss Mary E. Mayfield, to her daughter Emma and to the hotel manager. When all had nodded approval, the sum was noted as paid. In 1907, thoroughly frightened by the financial panic, Mrs. Wood drew all her money out of the banks, virtually disappeared with her daughter and sister...