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Word: drews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost 500 Yale and Harvard supporters literally tore apart Jim Cronin's as the closing hour of midnight drew near last night. Waitresses were still shoveling broken glass early this morning, and Jim himself was thumbing the phonebooks looking for carpenters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cronin Fans Go Berserk in Riot; Yard Is Rainy, Quiet | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...members of Iraq Petroleum to share & share alike in any new exploitations roughly within the old Ottoman Empire, as shown by a red line that oilmen drew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: From the Bazaars | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Drew Pearson's day-after-election column: "I surveyed the close-knit group around Tom Dewey, who will take over the White House 79 days from now. Here is the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Study of a Failure | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...coverage marked the TV debut of Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson. Both kept their noses in their scripts and their balding heads under hats. Winchell displayed his usual talent for saying nothing at all with the strident urgency of Gabriel trumpeting Judgment Day. Pearson repaired to a phone from time to time and returned to dispense "inside" dope which was not particularly informative, but had a lively jangle. The real ABC sparkplug-and TV's top election reporter -was white-haired Elmer Davis, who spoke extemporaneously, generally made sense and radiated authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Not Much to Look At | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...breakfast its readers heard on their radios that Truman was winning -and on Malcolm W. Bingay's editorial page, they read about the "Lame Duck President ... a game little fellow . . . who went down fighting with all he had . . ." Flanking the editorial were Drew Pearson, Walter Lippmann and Marquis Childs, all out on the same limb. Chicago's Journal of Commerce, in its "final" edition, referred to "President-elect" Dewey and was full of such heads as "New Regime Must Shape Trade Policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Happened? | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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