Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last week Argentina didn't know its good fortune. Then Mrs. Leila Drew, who writes a column "Mainly for Women" in the English language Buenos Aires Herald, picked up a bit of gossip. She was off like a hound for the pleasant suburb of Villa Urquiza. There the trail got hot. Tradesmen had played with the rumored quints, delivered eight bottles of milk a day to their parents' home. A drug-clerk had seen them brought in batches to be weighed on the scales of the Farmacia San Patricio. Neighbors had seen them being aired in sets...
Student Reserve. To relieve such collegiate worries, the American Council on Education drew up plans; their main idea also occurred to General George Marshall. Late last week the Army acted. Very shortly the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program for 17-year-old civilian high-school graduates will expand quickly from 5,000 to 25,000 boys. To satisfy the Army's need for college-trained specialists, the number may later rise to 100,000. With an R. of that size, few colleges would miss A.S.T.P. very much...
...Underwoods, all born in Korea, chose an appropriate day for their triple ordination: the 25th anniversary of the day when 33 Korean patriots (15 of them Christians) drew up the Korean declaration of independence and brought down upon themselves the wrath of the Japanese...
...among the best of U.S. newsmen, but in the field of international politics none challenges him. As a military reporter he ranks at the top with the United Press's Edward W. Beattie, the Chicago Daily News' s William Stoneman, the New York Times's Drew Middleton. On British foreign policy and relations with its Allies, on Russia's moves, Kuh crowds the top rung with the New York Times's James B. Reston...
...were fragile, and the young men were self-satisfied without being either complacent or smug. Their elders were benign, mellowed, trustworthy. They dressed comfortably (there are some 50 pictures of their Sunday and everyday costumes in the book). They built good houses, good ships, strong forts, sturdy barns. They drew good plans for them. They carried muskets so formidable that many a contemporary householder may envy them. They worshiped in churches that were the best work their architects and craftsmen could produce. Their faces that look out from hunting scenes, building scenes, christenings, battles, countinghouses, pulpits are serene and strong...