Word: redrawn
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...about "a President who thinks he always has to be doing something, right or wrong." The college professors President Roosevelt had taken into high office were scorned as "second-raters." Complaints were made that the bills sent up from the White House were messily drafted, always had to be redrawn. The House had got into the habit of railroading major legislation through one day a week and blowing off political steam the other five. Its committee discharge rule was stiffened as a precaution against revolt. The President had been five weeks in the White House and yet his brand...
...became known that Artist Peter Arno (The New Yorker), having designed the sets for a revue called The New Yorkers, was denied admission to the New York Scenic Artists Union. His designs had to be redrawn by someone else before the scenery could be constructed...
...largely because of a screaming campaign conducted by the London Times, the tunnel project was defeated in Parliament. To pacify the militarists the tunnel plans were redrawn to include two dips, one on the French side, one on the British. In case of war these could be instantly flooded with sea water. In 1914 the Channel tunnel again came before Parliament. Two weeks before war was declared the project was suddenly quashed by the Committee of Imperial Defense...
...offer was made in January. The terms of the gift were redrawn by Premier Ziwar and his distinguished colleagues and returned to Mr. Rockefeller (via his representative Professor James H. Breasted, famed Egyptologist) (TIME, May 3). Mr. Rockefeller acquiesced in Egypt's terms?which it then repudiated, evidently fearing something deep and scheming beneath such apparent magnanimity...
...constitution of the Verein is now being redrawn by a committee appointed at the meeting, and nominations for officers are under consideration...