Word: drew
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...during the depths of the Depression, the five girls were seen by the Canadian government as a welcome tonic for a beleaguered public. By an act of Ontario's parliament, they were taken from their parents and exhibited behind glass at a facility christened Quintland. At one point they drew more tourists than Niagara Falls...
...Harvard drew inspiration from the incredible efforts of its divers. It dominated early on, getting first and second in the first relay...
Public nudity seemed the theme of the day, as a group of bare-chested Yalies drew a large ovation by parading around the stands--and eventually posing on the field--in formation, spelling out F-ck Harvard on their chests. How Ivy League...
...practice. Los Angeles Kabbalist Jonathan Omer-Man has tutored more than 3,000 students in Kabbalah and the contemplation of such seemingly simple mantras as the headings for the first four Torah readings in the book of Genesis. A meditation conference organized by the Bay Area group Chochmat HaLev drew 500 people. Spiritual life at Rabbi Rami Shapiro's Temple Beth Or in Miami features a custom-built meditation garden. All told, Omer-Man believes, there are some 200 "small scale" programs of experiential mysticism countrywide...
This miracle of invention, inspired by a vanilla aria on which Handel himself wrote five unassuming variations, drew praise even from Brahms' antipode, Wagner. Like their worthy companions, the Bach Goldberg and the Beethoven Diabelli, these pieces explore the melodic and harmonic potential of their progenitor exhaustively, and function collectively as a treatise on the composer's sense of keyboard style. But more than the Goldberg and the Diabelli, the Handel variations are witty...