Word: drag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first view of San Francisco was a graphic lesson in the value of a fire department. The town had just been burned out; most of the citizens lived in tents. Most of her time she spent about the San Francisco fire houses learning to polish nozzles, cut washers, braid drag ropes...
Near Bricchetto as his car passed a squad of sweating artillerymen tugging a 105-mm. gun up a hill, out popped Il Duce to take his place with the privates at the drag ropes...
...brought a rope. He wanted to hitch Jiminez' legs to a motor car and drag him through the streets. "No! No!" commanded Lieut. Villalon. "Let him lie in the streets like an animal!" The dying man stared up at them. They kicked and fouled his corpse after he went limp...
Most important trade code up for a NRA hearing last week was Steel's. Its provision for company unions as a means of collective bargaining between companies and their workers threatened a major deadlock. NRA looked forward fearfully to a knock-down-&-drag-out fight. General Johnson had bluntly hinted to steelmen that they could not qualify the law by such labor clauses. When the hearing opened President Robert Patterson Lament of the Iron & Steel Institute (since leaving Washington as President Hoover's Secretary of Commerce) announced amid great applause that the industry had agreed to knock...
...Hill side road near Houghton's Pond in the Blue Hills Reservation. . . If you can bear to visit transatlantic liners (or can pretend to be looking them over with an eye to choice) the Italian, Hamburg-American, Cunard and White Star lines welcome visitors. . . If the dogs of conscience drag you to the Art Museum, don't forget you can get lunch on the premises. . . And finally, if you can save out seventy-five cents, there's tea at the Ritz