Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every day, opening our mail with palsied fingers and still-hopeful heart, we pull out something beginning like this; "Fifty-seven per cent of Yale men ten years out of college would fight in another war and forty-three percent would not, it was revealed today in the results of an 'opinion test'. A majority of Yale ten-year men disapprove of Albert. H. Wiggin and Samuel Insult; but approve of J. P. Morgan." Then you read on and it turns out that the Yale men are going to hold a dinner (war or no war). That is all right...
...Halifax, N. S. newspaper appeared this advertisement: "If there exists in Halifax any house built since the War of 1812 and guaranteed free from pull-chain plumbing, children, dogs and unmuzzled radios, can its landlord supply warm sunny furnished room with kitchen privileges to sullen uncommunicative couple at $4.50 week...
...only men in sight to relieve the skipper are Fred Allan and Drib Braggiotti. Allan has pitched victories against Cornell and Pennsylvania. Both games were loosely handled. In both Allan got into holes, but showed the ability to pull himself out again. Braggiotti, on the other hand, in the small amount he has been used, has shown a deliberate, steady style of work. He has yet to be fully tried and has never started a League game. These three men are of vital importance if the Crimson is to emerge at the top of the League. Just how good Harvard...
...Milne has been termed a great man, but even great men cannot count upon the vagaries of the cinema world, and the havoc which Hollywood has wreaked upon "The Dover Road," an enjoyable play, is so remarkable that even the genius that was once Diana Wynyard cannot pull...
After some little difficulty in lining up, all crews got off to an even start, with the Anglers on the Boston side in lane one, immediately pulling out into first place and never being headed from then on. The Bellboys, in lane two, pushed them all the way by using a stroke which was somewhat higher, while the Leverett and Kirkland shells tussled it out between themselves, see-sawing back and forth, but all the while dropping steadily behind the leaders. At the three- quarter mile mark, the Lowell boat forced the stroke of the Brooks men up from...