Word: scrawling
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...began to scrawl about the coming of death: "Angina? Pseudo? Raising right hand over head ... hot water . . . relief. Angina . . . pain returning three to five minutes . . . gradual and gradual letup...
...ballots rolling off German presses last week to be used March 29 have only one circle. By making a cross in this the German citizen votes "Ja," and it is impossible for him to cast any other vote. Blank ballots or ballots on which a daring voter might scrawl "Nein" automatically are void...
...Department an OK for the reassignment of General G. B. Pillsbury as assistant chief of engineers. Like MacArthur. Pillsbury already had served four years on this job, was reassigned to serve four more. But attached to the OK was a slip of paper on which was scrawled: "There are to be no further reassignments of general officers beyond the regular four-year period." Below the scrawl were the initials...
...with him Johnson finally said, "Young man, you ought to come to America." Insull answered: "I'd only go to America if I could be private secretary to Mr. Edison." Johnson promptly wrote a letter of recommendation to Edison. The same letter came back to London with a scrawl across it in Edison's writing: "Send him over." In February 1881, Insull sailed; 14 days later he arrived after dark at Menlo Park. Edison began dictating at once, finally stopped at midnight and said "You'd better get some sleep. I'll need you again...
...many a town the station agent ran out of tickets and had to scrawl railway passes on odd bits of cardboard. By train, by bus, by tram, by motor, by cart and by foot, every Belgian who could move went to Brussels last week to see a great King buried, to hear a new King proclaimed...