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Drew

(drōō), Charles Richard 1904-1950.
American physician who developed in 1940 a method of efficiently preserving blood plasma for transfusion. He organized and directed blood-plasma programs in the United States and Great Britain, becoming head of the first American Red Cross Blood Bank in 1941.
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From left: TEI General Counsel & Director of Tax Affairs Fred Murray, TEI President Drew Glennie, Deputy Minister of the Canadian Department of Finance Kevin Lynch, and TEI Executive Director Timothy McCormally just prior to Mr.
Another book Drew didn't write was a full-bodied narrative of how the campaign-finance bill became law, on the order of Alan Murray and Jeffrey Birnbaum's Showdown at Gucci Gulch (about the 1986 tax-reform bill) or Steven Waldman's The Bill (about the creation of AmeriCorps).
Using a ball-point pen, they drew over their drawing onto the scratchboard paper, making an impression onto the scratchboard paper.
He remembers Drew as a great place to grow up, a place where people didn't lock their doors and the police force consisted of a "day man" and a "night man," a department "more `Andy of Mayberry' than `NYPD Blue.'" The future pro football star knew "separate but equal" wasn't equal, but he never detected much animosity between the races.
Not only did Petrarch produce vividly suggestive writings on imitation, and put his ideas into practice in both his Latin and volgare texts, but he also drew explicit analogies between literary and pictorial imitation.
And does it make any sense to say that Pollock "drew well" in mature works like Autumn Rhythm?
That same myopia, that same uncomprehending failure to view her own work as others might, afflicts Elizabeth Drew in her inexhaustible zeal to keep chronicling modern politics with a tendentious literalness that she clearly views as high art.
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