Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burrowing Worm. Also found was a worm which burrows into the human leg, like a hookworm. The boil-like infection which it causes finally breaks, leaves the head of the worm protruding. Any attempt to pull it out suddenly ends disastrously, as the worm breaks in the body. Natives draw out these entozoa, often ten feet long, a few inches per day, reeling them on sticks as they emerge...
Editor Leamy decided to keep his editorial matter?essays, fiction, humor? consistent with the oldtime Mentor, but to deck out the material with capable, sometimes racy, illustration. Although the magazine's circulation reached 85,000, it became apparent that it would never pull in harness with its whopping big Crowell team-mates?Woman's Home Companion, Collier's, The Country Home (onetime Farm & Fireside), The American Magazine ? whose combined circulation is over...
...Boche moi!" she sobbed. "It is the Bolsheviks! I know it ! I know those people! They will pull out his finger nails, they will put out his eyes! No one will ever see him again...
...applying Case 1 to Earth it is necessary to alter the globe to some extent. We must imagine it a perfect sphere, devoid of any flattening at the poles, devoid of hills, dales. On such a sphere the gravitational pull at any two points equidistant from the surface is equal. If we further assume that this sphere is a charged body the electrical forces will everywhere be symmetrical. These conditions exist approximately on Earth. To such a sphere and to the two pairs of forces acting on it the parent field equations of Einstein were applied, found to bear...
When a man goes over the side of his disabled airplane, from deep in his consciousness comes the reflex which makes him pull the rip cord, located over his heart, and open up his life saver. Psychologically it is almost impossible to forget to pull. Three hundred feet of altitude is the safe minimum in which the chute can be used, although jumps of less height are on record. The highest jump on record is one of better than 24,000 ft. At that height, the jumper had to have oxygen for breathing. The longest delayed jump was from...