Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there till the serfs of Odysseus had time to carry it off for manuring his broad acres. So lay Argos the hound, all shivering with dog-ticks. Yet the instant Odysseus approached, the beast knew him. He thumped his tail and drooped his ears forward, but lacked power to drag himself ever so little towards his master. However Odysseus saw him out of the corner of his eye and brushed away a tear. . . . He plunged into the house, going straight along the hall amidst the suitors; but Argos the dog went down into the blackness of death, that moment...
Next day began the fight in which Samuel Insull hopes to escape at some point from the legal net which might drag him back to the U. S. to be tried for 'larceny and embezzlement of property of the value of $66,000." The first round of the fight started when Mr. Insull's lawyer, Cristos Ladas, went before the Greek Court of Appeals. He claimed that the extradition treaty was not retroactive, and that Mr. Insull was innocent anyway. In a crowded courtroom he thundered at the five judges. It was all Greek to Samuel Insull...
...parallel tracks. This would cost S. P. only $1,153,000 and would put F. & N. out of business. The "parallel track threat'' will never serve to arbitrate differences between major railroads, but railroadmen last week thought the I. C. C. had found a potent way to drag small railroads from holdout corners...
Noteworthy is the fact that the famed flagwaving manner of beaming, grey-haired, wry-mouthed George Michael Cohan in The Phantom President conveys the real excitement of his own sincere convictions. When he sings, "It's a grand old flag, Don't let it drag," it sounds like a new and tremendous idea of his own. When he prances, he does it like a supersalesman who knows he is good. No actor, he carries off his part ably simply by continually remembering he is George Michael Cohan...
...with a defective valve near the Polish-Latvian frontier-about 921 mi. from Basle. Pilot Van Orman's Good-year VIII was second with 830 mi., France's Petit Mousse third with 739 mi. Near Warsaw the champion Navy bag drifted so low that laborers seized a drag rope, were hauling the ship down until angry Pilot Settle threw a sand bag at their heads...