Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Challenged, he explained next day that his conclusion was drawn from the official report on the 1945 Hiroshima bomb, which scientists now consider a model-T bomb. The report said that "flash burns were protected by clothing and buildings within less than 3,250 ft. from the blast." The north-south runway, Tatom declared, is 6,840 ft. long. Rejoined Georgia's Congressman Carl Vinson laconically: "I, personally, would rather be in Georgia...
...Manhattan gallery opened a show of Barbara Hepworth's paintings, including 20 studies of the operating theater. In them, what the artist calls "the beauty and skill of the hands, every gesture perfectly related to the mind," the intent eyes of doctors and nurses peering over their tightly drawn masks, were caught in delicate pencil-lines, illuminated with eerie blues, greens and yellows...
...Toad inhabits his ancestral home, Toad Hall. Instead of acting with the dignity befitting a young man in such circumstances, Toad is a madcap adventurer, a faddist whose fancies often become manias of the most compulsive (and hilarious) sort. After cavorting about the countryside in a canary-yellow cart drawn by a horse named Cyril, Toad winds up in the Tower of London...
...recommendations drawn up by the committee during the past year have been turned over to McGinnis and Walsh, architects for Moors Hall, who will blueprint the library plans. McCutcheon and Co., contractors for Moors Hall, will handle construction...
Dormitory regulations for commuters, Miss Williams announced, have been drawn up by the office of the Dean of Residence. Under present rulings, commuters will also be able to get late permissions past 1 a.m. on special occasions...