Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential yacht Potomac drew away from Richmond that afternoon for a cruise to Jamestown before returning to Washington, the shouting crowd on shore turned to Postmaster General Farley, who had been left behind, and demanded a speech. Then came the only crass note in a week-end of unsullied idealism. Bellowed Boss Farley, hands cupped to mouth...
...beach. Primed to nab the outlawed craft, port authorities sent U. S. Pilot Art Williams, in Guiana after an air search for Paul Redfern, to fly over her. When Williams reported she was indeed the Girl Pat, a police launch set out to arrest her. As it drew alongside, the Girl Pat's doughty crew of four appeared at the rail stripped for a fight. Shouted Captain George Black Osborne: "We're outside the three-mile limit. Get out or we'll sink...
...Duke Nalon, Chicago midget-auto driver: a five-mile race that inaugurated the Philadelphia Municipal Stadium as a midget track, drew the biggest crowd for a professional sport event in Philadelphia since the Dempsey-Tunney fight...
...ELMER DREW MERRILL: DOCTOR OF SCIENCE, of Cambridge, professor of Botany and administrator of Botanical Collections, and acting supervisor of the Arnold Arboretum, and the Atkins Institute of the Arnold Arboretum at Soledad, Cuba. "A botanist famed for his investigations of the flora of the Philippines, and an administrator marked by his effectiveness in many posts...
...cover of his brother's first songbook Artist Gellert drew a barrel-chested, barefooted black convict wearing a ball& chain and resting on his pickax while he wiped the sweat from his face. Of the songs, some are mournful, some grim, some comic. But each one has its grievance. In I Went to Atlanta...