Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...berth. I rode once again upon a collapsing suitcase into Atlanta, and decided to take a chance on reporting a day late, and get some sleep, which I did in a fine hotel there. Having previously made arrangements for Pullman reservations to Wilmington, that evening as traintime drew near, I checked at the ticket window to make sure of my berth. To my utter amazement, my reservation had been taken over by a man who was visiting his aunt in Wilmington. Once again the suitcase and the coach...
...rest period by feeding it solids (e.g., a bouillon cube); it could be made to relax in the middle of work by feeding it liquids. > Tom's stomach secreted juice continuously, about 8 to 15 cc. an hour even while resting. (This contradicts a conclusion William Beaumont drew in 1833 from his famous experiments on Alexis St. Martin...
...Department explained that the column had contained the writer's views on controversial political questions, and therefore had no place in an Army publication. The Department did not explain why this rule was not applied to Columnist Drew Pearson, who is also published in Roundup...
...program came out of a Sioux Falls, S.D. movie house. There it drew big, delighted crowds on once-dull Monday nights, was tied in with teapot station KELO. The enthusiastic contestants came from nearby Army camps, one barracks competing against another. A wandering advertising production scout named Tom Wallace had no trouble persuading the advertising agency Benton & Bowles that it was just the thing for their Maxwell House Coffee account...
...cerebral thrombosis; in Providence. Fearing a fancied approach of epilepsy, in 1900 he leaped out of a fourth floor window, lived to see the inside of both private and public insane asylums. Released in 1903, he later wrote A Mind That Found Itself. A best-selling personal history, it drew the nation's attention to the primitive brutality of its madhouses, led to reforms that helped many unbalanced minds...