Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Shakespeare looked like the Bard of the Volga on his 382nd birthday: his native Stratford blossomed with its customary annual festival, but the Soviet Union broke out all over. Hamlet was a smash in Armenia, King Lear drew iron tears down Tartar cheeks, Two Gentlemen of Verona titillated the Uzbekistanians; altogether, Shakespeare was played to polyglot Russia in 27 languages...
...objections to world government, that the people are not ready for such a step, drew Van Doren's answer: "Why not ask them? They've never been asked about it before." He also believed that the responsibility of the people would eliminate the danger of tryanny in the proposed super government...
When depression struck as he had predicted, he proposed that nations "spend their way back to prosperity," and made an early convert of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Taking as his basis the formula p=mv/t* he then drew the famous Keynesian corollaries: deficit financing to put money in the hands of the unemployed, managed currency, reconstruction of the social system so that more high-velocity money gets into the hands of the poor, who spend it, less low-velocity money into the hands of the rich, who save...
...Drew Pearson was told the facts of life last week by the Rapid City, S. Dak. Journal, which prints his stuff, but doesn't always agree with it. Said the Journal in an editorial: "We especially object to what Drew Pearson said this week . . . that there were 'already 14,000 Japanese children in Japan born of G.I. fathers.' This is a biological impossibility by our counting. American troops did not land in Japan in great numbers until the latter part of September. . . . Figure it out yourself, Mr. Pearson...
...matter of fact, it was the Whites who drew first blood, when in the second period they nailed Ralph Petrillo behind his own goal line for a safety on a punt return. Petrillo exacted revenge only a few minutes later when he scampered 70 yards for a touchdown to make the count...