Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patriarch Miron Cristea drew nigh, his snowy hair surmounted by a Byzantine crown of massy gold, his right hand grasping the apostolic staff. Carol will not be crowned until next autumn. In a firm voice he read his Kingly oath, kissed the cross extended by the crowned patriarch, and, with tears on his cheeks spoke thus: "In keeping with the words of the gospel, I do not wish death to those who sinned against me, but I rejoice over every one who returns to the fold from which he never should have strayed...
...upstream course, returning from the bridge this afternoon, they rowed a very slow stroke for about a half-mile, then raising it gradually to 35 or 36 as they drew near the end of the course. F. A. Clark '29, captain last year, observed a great deal of the workout from a single, when he arrived at the pier several minutes after the crews...
...Hoover went to the mountain camp of Jay Cooke III, Philadelphia banker, near Williamsport, Pa. He fished with indifferent success in the cold waters of Larry's Creek. On his way home to Washington he stopped unexpectedly for Sunday service at a little rural Methodist church at Liverpool, Pa., drew a great crowd, dropped a tightly folded $5 hill into the collection plate...
...Calaveras County, Calif., last week gathered 10,000 coatless, holiday-bent people. It was the day of the International Championship Standing Broad Jump for Frogs. As the impatient crowd elbowed to get nearer the street an official of the town's greatest sporting event pushed his way through, drew a chalk-line on the pavement, placed the first contestant...
When "The Pride of San Joaquin," onetime (1928) world champion, was brought forward, he was conceded not a chance. His jumps last year were feeble. Everyone agreed that he was through but watched closely as he took a deep breath, drew his muscles taut and with a splendid lunge, threw his old body 12 ft. 10½ in., landing like a hunk of dough. The crowd was wild. "The Pride" had come back...