Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York, an eight-man team of Soviet wrestlers found only one American who could lick his weight in Russians. In the four-match tour, University of Iowa Alumnus Terry McCann, 23, U.S. 125½ lb. champ, was the only U.S. wrestler to win any bouts. He won three, drew...
...announcement that the Harvard Student Agencies may from a photography agency drew some sharp criticism yesterday from several students and local businessmen around the Square...
Hewing religiously to Moscow blueprints, the Polish Communists had tried to industrialize Poland overnight. To staff new factories, they drew hundreds of thousands of unskilled peasants off the land, padded the payrolls with thousands of Poland's aged who were unable' to live on their pensions. Before long, state-owned enterprises employed 6,800,000 workers-about 1,500,000 more than they could use efficiently. This did not bother the planners. "In the past," concedes a functionary of the Nowa Huta steelworks, "our managers thought that the more workers we had. the more steel we would produce...
...silk business because he had an esthetic eye for the glowing colors and uneven texture of the Thai silks. Says he: "It disturbed me that production of this wonderful material had stopped." He left the Army and diplomatic service, took 500 samples to New York, where the silk drew raves from designers, decorators and fashion editors. Thompson lined up an importing firm to handle the silk in the U.S., went back to Thailand and began operating with...
Sperry, as Chairman of the Board of Preachers, was the first to be faced with the question of allowing non-Christian services in the church. The final decision, however, did not lie with him; the Corporation drew up a set of rules for the operation of the church which stated that only ceremonies led by a Protestant minister could be performed there...