Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second in importance only to its divorce rush is Reno's mayoral election this week. Seeking re-election on a liberal platform is Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts who advocates placing at each & every street corner a barrel of whiskey with a pull-in dipper chained to it to drive out bootleggers. Realtor Milburn Gregory seeks the office on a platform stressing Reno's "scenic and health attractions." Howard Doyle has the support of ministers and a conservative element opposed to legalized gambling and easy divorce...
...professions. These men have specified on the questionnaires the nature of their activity during each working half-hour of the two-week period, and are willing to amplify their views in personal interviews with undergraduates. Unsigned, these records specify such matters as salary, congeniality of surroundings, amount of "pull" needed to enter upon the given career, and in some cases contain extensive comments on each day's activities. The files, Putnam states, may be consulted by undergraduates at any time...
...seems to be a training school for young attorneys with a "pull." No wonder the Government loses so often...
...Newark, N. J., William Muller, 21, a Manhattan waiter, was apprehended removing nickels from a telephone booth. William Muller confessed he had stuffed napkins in the coin-return slots of 40 pay stations, had made regular rounds to pull out the napkins, remove the accumulated coins...
...Russia, and he several times runs foul of the police, once goes to jail. Not from any excessive love for his fellow-man but because he has a head on his shoulders Clim begins to side with the revolutionaries. No longer just a bystander, he begins to feel the pull of the unseen magnet sweeping over Russia...