Word: drews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Borough President Hugo Rogers decided that New York lamp posts were cluttered with too many signs. He drew up plans for a more beautiful lamp post on which signs too cluttered to read would be replaced by simple initials which almost nobody would understand (samples: NTB for No Trucks or Busses, MT for Merging Traffic, ERD for East River Drive and QMT for Queens Midtown Tunnel...
...Cadillac swung into Manhattan by way of George Washington Bridge; General Dwight Eisenhower said he wanted to "surround the town" instead of making a frontal assault. Threading its way through cheering neighbors and small fry, the car drew up at No. 60 Morningside Drive, the 21-room mansion where Columbia University's presidents live rent-free. Ike and Mamie Eisenhower were home...
...Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps and the signatures of a good cross-section of government M.P.s. Early in 1947 members of the new group began to meet informally to discuss ways & means of injecting more practical Christianity into politics. Last November they sent a letter to the Times which drew such a response that they decided to publish the present twelve-page statement of faith...
Harvard tallied in the first when Bucky Harrison drew a walk, went to second on a balk, and crossed the plate on Howe's blast to deep left. In the seventh, Mort Dunn walked, went to second on a wild pitch and took third on Bud Gibbs' single to left. Gibbs stole second; Dunn scored and Gibbs went to third as Harrison struck out, and scored a minute later when Gil Richards walked with the bases loaded...
...century drew to a close, he was comparing British hegemony to the new electric light, which "only throws into deeper shadow the unlighted places." He publicly preached that the British must get out as fast as possible; and, in 1893 he retired to England, believing that he and Annette had not many years to live. Both lived until 1929, long enough to see their elder son become one of England's top social planners. Annette Beveridge was 86 when she died, nearly stone-deaf at the last and vigorously translating Turkish biography. "Perhaps the cleverest lady and the wickedest...