Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frightful humor, sent him hurrying to the police chief to demand that the nuisance cease. The police chief put his left hand on the ex-mayor's shoulder, the ex-mayor put his left hand on the police chief's shoulder; with their right hands they drew pistols, shot each other to death...
...following institutions anticipated enrolments equal to or slightly greater than last year: Vassar, Smith, Wellesley. Dartmouth, New York University, Yale. Princeton, Stanford. The University of Chicago expected a larger freshman class than ever, planned to be "prudent" financially. Substantially increased enrolments were expected by Drew University, Madison N. J. (it inherited from $7,000,000 to $12,000,000 from Manhattan's landowning Wendel family last March-TIME, April 6), Duke (10% over last year), University of California, College of the City of New York, Cornell. Rutgers University reported a slight decrease. The Universities of Wisconsin and Washington expected...
...public affairs. Liberals at heart, they are dissatisfied with the political times and Merry-Go-Round is the expression of their dissatisfaction. Those who either wrote chapters of the book or materially contributed ideas and information are supposed to include (though each diplomatically denies it) Farmer Murphy and Drew Pearson of the Baltimore Sun, Robert S. Allen of the Christian Science Monitor, George Abell of the Washington Daily News, Charles Ross and Paul Y. Anderson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ray Tucker of the New York World-Telegram and Ruby Black, freelance...
Last week President Gerardo Machado drew a deep, relieved breath and, like a contemplative barman picking up the chairs after a routine saloon fight, began setting his country to rights. Like an experienced barman, however, President Machado kept an alert eye cocked for a renewal of hostilities, which hotheads had continued to predict during the past fortnight. In Havana, where an expected uprising never materialized, police sat ready in armored cars. Miguel Marano Gomez, onetime Mayor of Havana, who spent the revolutionary period hiding in Havana, waiting for the insurrecto campaign on the eastern end of the island to become...
...Living Church also wrote Rev. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins. professor at General Theological Seminary and long Bishop Manning's subordinate as dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Member of the commission which drew up the canon and hence at disagreement with Bishop Manning on this subject as well as others,† he was defending it publicly for the first time. Said...