Word: drag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seem to want not only to please the public, but to educate them to the cheap things. We have reached a fine state of affairs indeed, when a bunch of ignorant movie directors try to improve upon the works of the world's greatest writers and as a result drag their masterpieces down to the level of cheap comedy. Look what they did when they put my father's famous books. "Anna Karenina" and "The Cossacks", on the screen! My part in the production of these pictures was to fight for as little mutilation of the original as possible...
Well, we're going to drag this thing out in the open...
...John Woodworth Wilce, Coach or Ohio State, last week ran toward a tackling dummy and sprang to drag it off its runner; that was "his senior tackle" an Ohio State ceremony performed by men who are leaving the team, on the last day of practice. The next day, he lost his last chance to win the Big Ten or Western Conference championship as Illinois scored eight points in the first half and then held on while returns from other conference games flashed up along the Scoreboard. By beating Ohio State 8-0, Illinois became the Conference champion for the second...
Without any desire to drag in by the heels a post mortem subject, I believe a fact ascertained and verified by myself at New Haven retains enough quickness in it to justify a comment. This has to do with the number of men assembling at the first football rally at Yale on Wednesday night. They were counted up by three different witnesses as less than a hundred...
...radio stations may be. By scientific theory, two possibilities exist. The Kolster beam may be skillfully aimed at the Heaviside Layer† and be reflected down to its receiving station, just as a pool player bounces a ball from cushion to pocket. The other possibility is that gravity will drag the beam to the proper curve of the earth...