Word: redraw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After all the thunder & grumbles were on the record, the House passed the reapportionment bill, 318 to 6. Most Tories, Churchill included, abstained. From the practical Tory point of view, the bill was not all bad. In its major clauses the bill would redraw constituency boundaries in such a way as to ensure fewer seats for Laborites, more seats for Tories...
John L. Lewis started out last week to redraw the map of U.S. labor-and perhaps that of U.S. politics...
Prim and meticulous, 77-year-old Bridgman stumps up & down his classroom, glowering affably at any student who wastes drawing paper or sits a few inches out of line from the other students. Occasionally he stops to drop a sardonic remark or to redraw, in heavy accurate lines, an improperly pitched shoulder or a badly proportioned leg. Something of a Puritan, Bridgman has only recently permitted nude models in mixed classes of men & women. He treats the human body as solemnly and abstractly as an engineering problem. "Anatomically," he says, "there's not much difference between...