Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack by students on the system of numerical grading drew a reply from another speaker, Warren A. Seavey '02, Bussey Professor of Law. Seavey defended the School's numerical grading by saying that "numbers, because they can be averaged, are much easier for an instructor to work with than letters...
...March 31, 1947), applied for club membership. The club, he reasoned, is not only a social institution but a place where newsmen come to exchange information, hear speakers at club luncheons, and meet sources. Many a newsman agreed with Lautier. and he had no trouble finding as sponsors Columnists Drew Pearson and Marquis Childs and U.P. Correspondent Lee (Breakthrough on the Color Front} Nichols...
...limp watches dramatically set against elongated dream vistas. But when Dali moved his subconscious props into religious art after World War II, his work left the critics cold. For his recent Manhattan show Dali personally grabbed the limelight by mugging with his wax-bean mustache, but his work drew a bouquet of cabbages. His smooth-as-melted-ice-cream paint surfaces reminded one critic of "old miniatures painted on celluloid." Other critics deplored the "vacant trivialities" in the show...
Chardin was in his honored 60s when he painted the picture, and living contentedly as a "King's Pensioner" in the Louvre. When first displayed in 1769 (three years after it was finished), his canvas drew a parade of exclamation points from Encyclopedist Diderot, one of Paris' first professional art critics: "Everyone sees nature; but Chardin sees it profoundly and exhausts himself in rendering it as he sees it; his work on The Attributes of the Arts is proof of this. How perfectly the perspective is observed! How the objects reflect each other! How the masses are handled...
...Lion. If Scott drew on his tradition, his greatest disciple created the most popular works in igth Century French literature by sheer personal exuberance. The son of an illegitimate mulatto general from Santo Domingo, Dumas crashed the august Comédie Française with a rip-roaring historical drama, Henri III and His Court, and became the kinky-maned lion of Paris...