Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commerce thinking has been dominated by men . . . who could not or would not understand that in our system it is just as important to have customers who can buy as it is to have goods to sell." The Dry Goods Association is the second big trade organization to pull out of the C. of C. this year, the National Automobile Manufacturers having quit last spring because the Chamber was not anti-New Deal enough. A little later Edward Albert Filene, one of the Chamber's founders, resigned in disgust over the Chamber's amateurish handling of national economic...
...clock this morning a special train will pull out of Back Bay and head for New Haven, carrying with it Harvard's hopes of capturing the Big Three football title...
...fast indeed. At about 50, I changed to third. At about 70, I changed to top. . . . Thereafter, I did 93. . . . These are speedometer speeds, but the speedometer is one that satisfies Messrs. Rolls-Royce. . . . Farther on . . . I spoke a word of warning to my passengers and did a quick pull-up from 80 with both hands off the wheel. I was ready to grab and hold her, but the car stopped in a dead straight line as though snatched by a vast magnet...
...victim must be carried by hand, four first-aiders "should form a team-one at the victim's head, another at his feet, the others at each hip. While those at the hips lift and carry, the others gently pull and carry. The traction at head and feet holds the vertebrae apart and prevents them from grinding against the injured cord...
...pretend to be riding high so that their mother back in Austria will accept money to be spent to her blind eyes. When mamma comes to America the deception is a little harder, and then when she regains her sight there is the utmost consternation as to how to pull the wool over the freshly-cured-eyes. It's pretty sugary up to this point, but when Mother Jane Darwell discovers the fraud, things get stickier than ever...