Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story, "Poor Man's Plane" in TIME, Sept. 10, would surely indicate that Director Eugene L. Vidal of the Department of Commerce in calling for bids on 25 new planes for his inspectors, had hoped to pull out of the hat a plane for the public to sell for $700, and had failed. In order to understand . . . the entire project, it is necessary to consider the following facts...
...more advanced courses, work independently under a tutor, write a thesis. All students will study their subject at first hand in Government offices, Supreme Court, House & Senate galleries. Tuition: $150 per semester. Upon graduation will come the real work of finding a Government job on merit rather than political pull...
...teacher finishes chalking sums on the Multi-Use Blackboard Fixture. The pupils step up, reverse the individual sections of the board, pull them out like easels, set to work painting, their work pinned to a cork surface...
Indicating that China would slap an embargo on silver exports if the U. S. nationalization program creates undue demand for the metal, Dr. Kung declared after a vigorous pull on his cigar: "China should be ready to act instantly-which we are-if necessary...
...Cover the Waterfront established Max Miller in the hearts of a large number of his fellow citizens. He rediscovered the pull of the human interest story, the homely philosophical anecdote, the hushed heart throb. Having mastered his technique he proceeded to turn out He Went Away for a While and The Beginning of a Mortal. Now appears The Second House from the Corner, written in the same whimsical, speculative vein, with the same familiar snatches from the cracker barrel of homespun philosophy. Some of the fragments are pretty stale and moldy. Author Miller writes about himself after the manner...