Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scores of you have been having another field day lately spotting oddities in TIME. This time it may have been touched off by the picture the editors ran in the Sept. 22 issue of England's Prime Minister Clement Attlee wearing his hat backwards, which drew a heavy response, much of it accompanied by the inevitable question: "Is he coming or going?" At any rate, when Czechoslovakia's Jan Masaryk turned up in the Oct. 6 issue wearing his spectacles upside down, more than 100 of you said you noticed it. Fifteen of you, presumably equipped with magnifying...
Booth left the Methodist ministry because the ragtag-&-bobtail following he drew with his fiery street-corner sermons shocked his respectable brethren. Now the Army considers itself a religious body much like any other Protestant denomination, with an accent on works and service. But the old-fashioned blue-and-red uniforms still stand for humility and love-and another chance for sinners...
...congress, working through the days and half the nights, drew to a close, Italian workers brought votive offerings to the leaders on the dais-sacks of flour and rice for the congress' kitchen, an electric iron, a bicycle, a motorcycle, a Fiat car with headlights blazing. Most educational was a toy consisting of three tiny trucks on rails; one was labeled "reaction," and moved only backwards, the second was labeled "conservatism" and did not move at all, and the third was labeled "Socialism and United Peace Front" and zoomed merrily forward...
...most talented star, haggled with his bosses for $75,000 and signed on the dotted line for about $10,000 less than that. Last year, he struggled along on $43,750. The pay boost made DiMag the fanciest-salaried New York Yankee since Babe Ruth (who once drew $80,000) and put him in a class with baseball's two rich kids: Ted Williams, whose big bat is worth $75,000 a year to the Boston Red Sox, and Cleveland's $80,000-or-more-a-year pitcher, Bob Feller...
Last year's exhibit drew throngs of admiring students to Winthrop House...