Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention drew to a close it was announced that next year's session would be held in Montreal. Followed a low buzzing sound, then scattered professorial applause, then thunderous cheering. Commented one smiling member: "Such a demonstration is more . . . convincing than a poll on prohibition...
Last week a train drew into Youngstown. Ohio, bearing upon it two Lords of Bethlehem, come to cry to the citizens of Youngstown, to the shareholders of Youngstown Sheet & Tube. "Let there be merger!" One of the pair was President Eugene Gifford Grace who had conducted all negotiations with Youngstown's Founder-Chairman James A. Campbell. The other was joke-loving, big-chested, big-hearted Chairman Charles M. Schwab, than whom only Henry Ford is a more famed industrialist. Although Youngstown's Campbell publicly advocated the deal, Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland has furnished fierce opposition (TIME. March...
...needy. During the Boer war he turned the other cheek to Great Britain by organizing Indian Red Cross units, served with such passive, non-violent gallantry at the front that he wrung a medal for bravery from the Empire. For his pro-British speeches during the World War he drew another medal...
There have been days when the prophet of happy-go-lucky education drew up his program with a glitter in his eye. Sometimes lectures seem just made for the faithful and even for a smattering of Philistines. But no such small-fry to-day. For once the call goes out to all Harvard men alike; there's no need for special interests to lure the elect when Professor Morison talks at ten this morning in Harvard 2 on "The Founding of Harvard College...
...Mellen '33, who drew a bye in the 145-pound class, will meet the survivor of the match between C. Angel '30 and A. P. Carlisle...