Word: drowne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roar of the ventilating apparatus in the upper lecturer room and the Library is so loud as to prove a distraction in the latter and even to drown out a low-voiced lecturer in the former, while the air in the upstairs room seems to benefit not at all from the uproar when a large course such as Fine Arts 9a is in session...
Wilson replied: "I would not save Al Smith or Raskob; in fact I think I would let them all drown...
...coffin fumbling on a wooden stairway; a boy who has been punished raving at the closed door of his room; a hay-harvest, and, later, an avalanche in the Swiss Alps; the stepmother saving the boy, Jean, from a mountain river where at last he has tried to drown himself...
...England a man was blown off London Bridge to drown in the Thames; and the statue of King Richard the Lion Hearted in Old Palace Yard, between the House of Lords and Westminster Abbey, lost His Majesty's sword which the wind snapped off at the hilt. Landsmen's deaths in Europe totaled 25. The South American cyclone slew 41 Argentines, injured 150, swept away 200,000 acres of crops...
While in Shanghai policemen courteously admonished boys and girls not to drown themselves for disappointed love (as hundreds have done recently) but to discuss national politics...