Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scalps hanging from a burdened belt, a string of broken records left in its wake, the Harvard team has reached an enviable standing. Yale as usual, has an unbeaten team. But Coach Ulen's corps may pull the bulldog's tusks out this time and cheerfully demolish the good-luck charm which has hung around his leathery neck during the past 150 meets...
...killed herself because he planned to leave her for another woman. Vridar tormented himself with remorse, thought long of suicide and even made abortive attempts. He fled from Chicago, where he had been studying for his Ph.D., went to Washington with Athene, the other woman. There he decided to pull himself together, face himself without flinching. As a first step he went back to Chicago and took his degree. Then he got a job teaching, first at his old college in Salt Lake City, then in Manhattan. All this time Athene was spiritually holding his head, watching him spit...
Track, like crew, is a sport in which effort never ceases. When winter comes, trackmen pull on flannel drawers, pound away on wooden tracks, move inside to practice only when snow covers the boards. Last week the pick of U. S. runners, hurlers and jumpers, including 18 world-record holders and 14 onetime Olympic team members, crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to test their training. The National Amateur Athletic Union championships, always a climax to the indoor season, this year took on ½added significance. Many a youngster decided to show the 100-odd, owl-faced, stiff...
Sage sees Crimson flowering in Garden. If other teams Woodward off Jaakkomen they dare pull no Bohner for there is no Badman on Harvard squad. Huey sees where Dartmouth will pay the Piper Button the other hand Sage's Godshall help local boys win. Tally-Harvard 37, Cornell 36, Yale 29, Dartmouth...
...commands to the devils to depart, "with lightning speed the possessed dislodged herself from the bed and the hands of protectors, and her body, carried through the air, landed high above the door of the room and clung to the wall with catlike grips." It was necessary to pull her down by force...