Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Men With "Pull...
Each time he decided he could not get into his chosen field this Harvard freshman had enough engine left to pull him out, so he tried again. Even with the half hour left in his engine he did the proper thing to seek a landing place; but he went at it wrong. More or less like driving your car off the ferry slip after the boat has left for New Jersey...
...gasped: "I was braking, preparatory to taking a turn, and suddenly I heard a terrific crash and the front wheels locked. I was doing well over 100 m. p. h. and I don't know how I held the car on the track. Somehow I managed to pull her in. It was a ghastly experience...
...merely deposited there a check on a third bank, he properly could be said to have kited twice. Little unintentional kites are often flown in the financial skies. Bankers agree that kiting becomes opprobrious only when the kiter deliberately uses the kite's lifting power to pull him out of a financial sinkhole...
...Last week Treasury officials were talking of a deficit of $700,000,000 to $800,000,000- the first deficit since 1920 and a monster when it came. The staggering size of the DEFICIT immediately provoked political speculation about an increase in taxation to pull the Treasury out of the red. Republican leaders last week predicted that tax rates would not be raised on the eve of next year's national campaign for the presidency. All agreed that the Treasury should bridge itself over by short-term borrowings. Typical was the statement of Ohio's Senator Fess. chairman...