Word: drews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beadle drew himself up with great pride, and said, "I invented it. ... We name our foundlings in alphabetical order. The last was a S,-Swubble, I named him. This was a T,-Twist, I named him. The next one as comes will be Unwin and the next Zwilkins...
...when the Principe Alfonso slid swiftly out of Stockholm harbor. Aboard was King Alfonso XIII, the first King of Spain ever to visit Sweden (TIME, Sept. 24). But what was the tiny speedboat that darted like a water flea after the large ship? Swedes recall that the speedboat drew alongside the Principe Alfonso which, churning the water to soapy froth, stopped. A box was lifted aboard with pulleys. The Principe Alfonso moved on. The impertinent little speedboat shot back toward Stockholm. What did it all mean...
Then, as the Nineteenth Century drew to its close, was the golden time of the Waldorf-Astoria. Prancing, sleek horses drew gleaming broughams and victorias to the doors, porters ushered bejewelled ladies and distinguished gentlemen into the labyrinthine lobby. Hansom cabs picked up titled fares at the portals...
...handles its sea food as cleanly as do the others. Yet not sufficiently so to satisfy public health authorities. Hence representatives of Baltimore's health department had Baltimore's Association of Commerce draw Baltimore's wholesale fish & sea food mongers into a conference which, last week, drew up 19 regulations to keep the food clean...
...this purchase, Col. Behn drew into I. T. & T.'s system the second largest telephone company in South America. British stockholders recalled, last week, that he had already gained control of the third largest (Chile Telephone Co.) and fourth largest (Montevideo Telephone Co.), both wrested from British interests. Last June, I. T. & T. celebrated an extraordinary feat. Fighting snowstorms, landslides, it had flung its telephone lines across the 13,000-ft. Andes, linking Valparaiso, Buenos Aires, Montevideo...