Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy to expect and allow for the expansion of German interests along lines which it is patently destined to follow. ... If there is to be peace, there can be no exemption from contribution and concession-neither for Germans, nor for Czechs, nor for the British Empire either. . . . The gravitational pull of a nation of 70,000,000 [Germany] cannot be denied...
London's American Chamber of Commerce heard William Hulme Lever Viscount Leverhulme, governor of world-spraddling Lever Brothers, Ltd. (Lux, Lifebuoy Soap), tell about the perplexity of efficiency experts over a certain laborer, the only worker in a factory to pull, not push, his wheelbarrow. Asked why, the laborer said: "Well, guv'nor, hi 'ates the ight of the bloomin' thing...
...squirrel which appeared on his window sill, standing cutely on its hind legs. Opening the window he allowed the animal to enter and then offered it some unpopped popped corn. Refusing to eat the pop corn, the squirrel started to climb the Yardling's curtain. When he attempted to pull it down, it turned and grabbed his finger...
...object of the drive on Teruel was to pull down the full force of Franco's armies on Leftist heads, it succeeded last week beyond measure. With his toughest general, Miguel (siege of Oviedo) Aranda, and his ablest General, Jose Fidel (capture of Bilbao) Davila, leading the counterattack, El Caudillo himself reportedly took charge of the campaign from field headquarters 75 miles northwest at Calatayud...
...ling can maintain their will as China's will-the same will which said that "any sacrifice should not be regarded as too costly"-Chinese prospects are good. China's prospects now as they have been for 20 centuries are, however, only for the long pull...