Word: drown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussion of Indian Universities by C. Balakrishna Roa is an Oxford contribution and a good one. Unlike so much of the writing emanating from that source it does not drown the substance in epigram...
Apparently an unidentified man witnessed a fight that occurred on the West Boston bridge about the same time a woman informed she had seen a man drown in the Charles river...
...knocked two overboard. After dark another line was made fast to the fore-rigging, and by means of a breeches buoy the two remaining men, more dead than alive, were landed. One was the mate, who told the people that he had seen his wife and little boy drown when a wave broke into the cabin...
...bustling University of Minnesota in Minneapolis is sharing in the boom. Last week the small, silver-haired dean of its College of Science, Literature & the Arts, John Black Johnston, 68, prepared to retire, and as he did so lugubriously doomed one in every two of its students to drown in the sea of education...
...ramp of the kind whose appearance at any Washington hotel indicates that the President himself may arrive at any moment. Over the prandial tablecloth fluttered two perturbed tumbling pigeons, symbols of Peace. The Democratic Party was about to celebrate the accession of a new leader in the Senate, to drown old woes in new harmony...