Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...philosophy, thought back to the time when he had trained Harvard's crew for its first race with Yale. Pondering on the smoothness with which the racing shell had slipped through the water, and knowing that railroad engines often use more power to overcome atmospheric resistance than to pull cars, Rev. Mr. Calthrop sat down with pencil & paper, sketched an "Air-Resisting Train" which anticipated by almost 70 years the modern streamliner...
Exuberant Sir Thomas can usually be counted on to pull a rabbit of some sort out of his hat. This season's rabbit: an unknown, good-looking, 26-year-old,Polish-born soprano named Margaret Kubatzki. Soprano Kubatzki, making her official Covent Garden debut in a role previously sung by the eminent Kirsten Flagstad (Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutch-man), created a sensation. Said Conductor Beecham: "One night last October I was turning the various knobs of a wireless ... I heard a magnificent voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute...
...Federal Government can pull the country out of Depression by spending and can drop the country in again by economizing. We had to prove that by experiment because hardly anybody believed it in 1933. Now that this relationship is proved by experience, many people still can't believe...
...most notably, whereas early reports had the treaty inoperative until Italian troops left Spain, the actual agreement merely notes the agreement that Italy will pull out of Spain when the war ends. In Leftist Spain last week this was held to be the collapse of whatever was left of Nonintervention...
...President's next press conference, however, the Splawn report had somehow become general knowledge. Its 60 pages offer both immediate remedies anda long-range program to pull the roads out of the deepest ditch in their history...