Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blanket handsomely inscribed, "Susanna." "Well," exclaimed Mr. Landon cordially, "This is a surprise! How are you?" The crowd cheered as Susanna, lured by several lumps of sugar, finally lifted her swaying trunk to the candidatorial hand. Mr. Landon shook it heartily. Susanna snorted. Boasted Nominee Landon as his train drew out: "She knew me. I distinctly heard her say 'Are you Alf Landon...
...Conte di Savoia dropped anchor and ravening reporters in their cutter drew along the starboard side, away from the port side slipped the 75-foot Long Island commuter yacht Nepenthe carrying the Duchess of Toledo and personal maid. The 1,000 h. p. engines of the commuter were just turning over but ready to open up with a roar should reporters give chase. Thus neatly great Victoria's granddaughter slipped away, with the U. S. State Department honoring her Queen's prerogative to travel without a passport, and the U. S. Treasury Department speeding through the Customs...
Solar Sideswipe. Sir James Jeans is mainly responsible for widespread acceptance of the theory that, some billions of years ago. a star passed close enough to the sun to exert a powerful gravitational attraction upon it. drew out long streamers of hot gas which condensed and cooled to become the Earth and the other planets. At Blackpool, Sir James said that a colleague had recently pointed out to him that this theory failed to account for the fast rotation speeds of the big outer planets, which have short days of about ten hours. The astronomer indicated his readiness to abandon...
...Angeles had a fellow doctor take a drink of ice water while holding his arm immersed in a tank of water. Soon as the cold drink made itself felt in the demonstrator's stomach, water level in the tank fell measurably, thus indicating that the cooled stomach drew blood from the capillaries of the arm. Consequently the capillaries shrank, and the bulk of the arm with them. These changes must have some effect on heart and lungs, argued Dr. Moor, urging doctors to search for such changes...
...this added up to a first-rate marine labor crisis on the West Coast which threatened to tighten rather than ease as Sept. 30 drew near. On that date expires the agreement reached after the 1934 general strike by the waterfront labor unions, notably Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's Association, and the Waterfront Employers' Association. Negotiations on a contract to replace it found both sides in a thoroughly truculent mood last week. Debates were featured by such extreme proposals from both labor and management that the shipowners finally suggested arbitration. The longshoremen agreed to poll their members...