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Word: drews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Voice of Experience. In St. Louis, when Bachelor Kenneth Donzelot asked to be excused from jury duty in a wife-murder trial because he did not "know much about marriage or women," he drew a lecture from Judge James E. McLaughlin: "The court didn't marry until ... 39. The court . . . has learned he knows less about women since he got married than before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...lead changed hands twice before the visitors finally took command. Joe Kozol drew in the 121-pound class and Brown went ahead on Gray Michael's decision over Bob Abboud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Mat Team Topples Brown, 19-13 | 2/24/1949 | See Source »

Brown increased its lead to 11 to 7 as George Held decisioned Rod Skinner at 155, but then Harvard rallied. Tom Connors registered a first period pin over Brown's Tiny O'Donnell in his first start at 165, and Captain Bob Claflin drew with Tony Travison at 175 to set the stage for Houston's triumph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Mat Team Topples Brown, 19-13 | 2/24/1949 | See Source »

...neglected grass-roots organizing. Their party was badly split in the district; they had run a weak candidate who leaned on the fact that his father once represented the riding. Nevertheless, the election threw an unaccustomed scare into the Liberals. The Tories felt nothing but joy. When Leader George Drew entered Parliament the night of the election, party colleagues gave him a loud cheer and, following time-honored custom, threw copies of Hansard (equivalent to the Congressional Record) across the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Bitter Foretaste | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Death of a Salesman (by Arthur Miller; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Walter Fried) had Broadway in a fever of excitement from the moment it drew out-of-town raves last month. Last week, on Broadway itself, it caused even greater excitement, drew even wilder raves-"superb," "majestic," "great," "a play to make history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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