Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hugh Wheelwright drew top scoring honors for the Gold Coasters by sinking 11 points as his teammate Dave Templeton, followed close on his heels with 10 tallies. Ted Eckelberry of Eliot, who garnered 12 markers, was high scorer for the game...
...export subsidy." Shanghai businessmen are aware that U.S. law permits the imposition of countervailing tariffs on goods sent to the U.S. under export subsidies by foreign governments. Shanghai believed that the U.S. Consulate had announced that it would invoke the countervailing machinery against Soong's subsidies. Some Chinese drew from that the sensational conclusion that the U.S. had withdrawn all support of Chiang's Government. (The State Department in Washington was informed by its Shanghai Consulate that it had merely announced that Soong's measure had been forwarded to Washington which would determine whether...
...just like old times. In Rome, one of Casanova's old pawing-grounds, police seized a new edition of his memoirs on the grounds of "obscenity and immorality." In Boston, the local censor drew up a three-page list of "obscene and profane" words that Eugene O'Neill would have to cut out of The Iceman Cometh before Bostonians could...
...Manhattan, family matters came up again at a meeting of the American Social Hygiene Association. Summing up a 15-year study of the family system in the Western world, Dr. Carle C. Zimmerman, a Harvard sociology professor, drew a gloomy conclusion. The family system, he said, is likely to break up before the end of the 20th Century...
...Bulletin's 180-page first Sunday edition this week, thrown together in eight days by regular Evening Bulletin staffers working overtime, was packed with such ex-Record features as Drew Pearson, Hedda Hopper, Steve Canyon and Li I Abner. It included comic and book sections still under the Record emblem, and two magazine sections for the price of one: Marshall Field's Parade and Hearst's American Weekly-both of them loot from the Record. With a Sunday package like that, Publisher McLean hoped soon to take the qualifier out of his advertising slogan: "In Philadelphia, Nearly...