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Word: drew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, MAY 26, SAYS: "AT THE SAVOY HOTEL HE [PREMIER DREW] GAVE A PARTY FOR ABOUT 400 OF THE UNITED KINGDOM'S BIGGEST BIGWIGS." PREMIER DREW DID NOT GIVE PARTY. TORONTO "GLOBE AND MAIL" . . . QUOTES PREMIER DREW AS SAYING: "i DID ATTEND A RECEPTION AT THE SAVOY WHICH WAS ARRANGED BY A GROUP OF CANADIANS IN LONDON. . . . THE ENTIRE EXPENSE OF THIS AFFAIR WAS BORNE BY THIS GROUP OF CANADIANS AND IT DIDN'T COST ME OR THE ONTARIO GOVERNMENT ONE COPPER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...That should please Ontario taxpayers. And the London Times should be pleased that it did not print the social notice drafted at Ontario House, beginning: "The Hon. George Drew, Prime Minister of Ontario, gave a reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...judge asked Kiki: "What drew you to Bourin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Proudhon Spelled Backwards | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Only after he left Seattle did his crowds begin to fall off. In Portland, Ore., he drew less than half capacity at the civic auditorium. In Bismarck, N.Dak., only 2,500 busy farmers showed up out of an expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old Lochinvar | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Aileron, Maggoty. In the finals, Sonya spelled baccalaureate, saleratus and aileron correctly, drew a smile by asking whether the pronouncer meant an "ape or an underground worker" when he asked for guerrilla. Finally, she put two t's in maggoty, and was spelled down. When Mattie Lou got it right, and zipped off chlorophyll to clinch the championship, tears came to Sonya's eyes. Schoolmarm Phillips told her: "Sugar, don't you shed a tear, because you did so sweet." Champion Mattie Lou was crying a little, too. Said she to Sonya: "I wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spelldown | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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