Word: drews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout it all, the linguistic battle lines between the Mandarin-speaking refugees from the north and the laughing, dark-skinned Cantonese drew tighter and tighter. The northerners aloofly refused to attempt the Cantonese dialect and its eight singing tones (Mandarin has only four). They snootily reminded their hosts that Canton and Kwangtung Province had been declared a barbarous territory as recently...
...rapidly in the Red hierarchy, and by 1928 was important enough to go to Russia for indoctrination and treatment in a tuberculosis sanatorium. Exile, jail, conspiracy and murder have long since become his familiars. Recently a rebel deserter was asked if Uncle John had any hobby. The ex-rebel drew a forefinger across his throat and answered: "Counting heads...
...College Social Affairs Committee last night reversed Thursday's five to four vote of no confidence in Chairman John K. Lally '49, by giving him a "nearly unanimous" vote of confidence. Lally with drew his proffered resignation and will remain in office through the spring term...
Last week was the 300th anniversary of a dramatic and still controversial event, the execution of King Charles I. To mark the occasion, many speeches were made and articles written which drew a wide variety of lessons from the monarch's unhappy fate. Some held it up as a warning against socialism; others as a horrible example of what happens when conservatism thwarts the popular will. It remained, however, for famed Communist Biologist J. B. S. Haldane to produce the most memorable statement on the beheading of King Charles. In the course of a 1,200-word article...
...test his theory, Reporter Hammer persuaded the Press makeup editor, Richard Campbell, 25, and his wife Florence Margaret to act as guinea pigs. Signing himself "C. P. Ress, atty.," Hammer drew up a divorce petition for the happily married Campbells. He stamped the application with a notary's stamp, paid the $11 filing fee and waited the legal six weeks. Then he slipped the form into a stack of similar papers in the divorce court...