Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nearly all of the men were out of condition, it was impossible to do much work, or to get a very good idea of their strength. Today or tomorrow, however, the men will begin regular exercise, pulling every day for a short time, and taking a short run. In order to get in any sort of condition to pull at the second winter meeting, they will have to do very careful and hard work...
...will give a sparring tournament on March 14th, at which, besides the sparring, there will be a pull between Technology tug-of-war team and the Northwestern University team, which sent the unique challenge to Harvard some months...
...very interesting meeting, and hope that the members of the H. A. A. will accept this invitation. Harvard men will be admitted only after showing their tickets of membership to the H. A. A. It will be remembered that the Northwestern University team challenged Harvard to a pull a few months...
...often happens that a man does not get an opportunity to bring his strongest muscles into play, or that he is handicapped in his strength of legs by having a weak grip, or in his strength of arms (that is; the times he can pull and push his weight up) by having large hips and lower limbs...
...relieved: The first is by cutting down the running expenses of the teams; the second is by combining the finances of the teams, so that, under one management as far as possible, they can be run together, and money saved by the combination of the various interests, which now pull apart rather than together...