Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association (TIME, Oct. 28). Eyanson was sent to his office to tell him what Connecticut manufacturers wanted out of the Tariff, to supply him with economic arguments to obtain it. He made Eyanson a technical Senate employe, took him into a secret meeting of the Senate Finance Committee. Eyanson drew Senate pay, received but did not cash a $1,000 check from the Senator. For this the Senate voted a resolution of censure against Senator Bingham. His offense, in his critics' eyes, was his attempt to deceive Senators as to Eyanson's identity and connections. The moral appearance...
When the meeting drew to a close after three hours of bickering, the stockholders proceeded to vote themselves a dividend. This they did by passing a motion that the annual report be mailed to stockholders, with an amendment that it be enclosed with a dividend payment to Class A stockholders...
...piling wealth of her experience, Peggy drew up ten categorical imperatives for husbands. One of them: "He must get up first in the morning and not let me see him until he is shaved. It is very tiring to have to look at a husband early in the morning." The diary ends with Peggy unmarried again as she was in the beginning. But she leaves you with the impression that she has already begun to cheat old age, and will probably cheat Death...
...college are given, in theory and to the furthest extent practically possible, a purely cultural education. He pointed out that "telescoping" of elementary courses and those of a professional character is avoided at Harvard as much as possible. In describing the administrative system employed in the University he drew the analogy of judge and jury. "The Faculty," he explained, "represents the judge, the expert, and the Corporation is analogous to the jury, laymen of affairs." In the Harvard administration there is no seat of absolute power and the success of the organization has depended upon a sympathetic cooperation between...
...confined to the front car of a subway train bearing hockey crowds, which had boarded the cars at Park Street Under. Much of the damaged occurred before the train arrived in Central Square, and police and railroad men were consequently on hand at Harvard Square when the train drew...