Word: pulled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Office Wife (Warner). This will have one automatic public in the people who read Faith Baldwin's magazine story and another in those who will feel the pull of the splendid box-office title. To criticize the plot because it is familiar would be absurd, for its familiarity is its greatest strength. To be effective as drama the love-rivalry between an executive's secretary and his wife should have been worked out with far more specific, individual detail. But the producers developed it stupidly, could not keep improbability out of a situation and background so thoroughly within the experience...
...plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze. Her hull measurements are within a fraction of an inch the same as Enterprise's; she carries 16 square feet less sail and has a little more displacement. She can ride an English chop on a reach and pull before the wind; what she can do in the slow swells of Newport water remains problematical. She is a modern, but not a strikingly original boat; there are comparatively few tricks in her rigging, few experiments, and it is this that constitutes her main point of difference from Enterprise...
...eight months of the year. No trees can grow there, no cats can live there, no horses, no rabbits, no rats. The St. Kildans (a population of 30 to 100 has lived there for centuries) speak nothing but Gaelic, do not bother to shear their wild sheep but pull the wool out by the fistful. They live on potatoes and sea birds. In winter, when the island is inaccessible, the St. Kildans maintained communication with the outside world by means of "sea messages." Letters placed in strong wooden boxes were thrown from the sheer cliffs. The prevailing westerly winds generally...
...Governor Leslie of Indi- ana, loitering in the lobby, stepped forward for a handshake. Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh marched on to the Executive Offices where President Hoover waited for them. Col. Lindbergh placed himself at the President's left. Government officials connected with aviation pressed close to watch President Hoover pull out a large $1,500 gold medal* voted by Congress in 1928, hand it to Col. Lindbergh. Said the President...
Scientists divide earthquakes into two main groups, those of volcanic origin (generally local in character), and what they call tectonic earthquakes: slipping and faulting of the earth's crust either from subsurface erosion or (as many now hold) a result of the gravital pull of the sun and moon. Though Vesuvius had been in mild eruption for a fortnight before last week's quake, Italy's greatest seismologist, Professor Giovanni Agamennone, insisted that last week's cataclysm belonged to the latter class...