Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the College assemble in Harvard Square with torchlight's and flares, and behind the band, march down Boylston Street to the Stadium, where the fight and pep speeches would be made. We would do well to take a leaf out of the book of Andover-Exeter tradition and pull the team along the route in an open wagon. The marchers should sing Harvard songs, and so arrange themselves along the route as to form a continuous alley of rooters for the team. The throwing of flowers before the team's wagon (a custom in use at California institutions) might...
...holding companies had made $10,425,000 dealing in the same stock. Mr. Wiggin's explanation of the discrepancy was that the Chase subsidiary had been operating in & out on a trading basis to distribute stock to the public; his own companies had been operating for the long pull...
Following a conference with his economic encourage, the President has announced that the government will enter the European market for gold. Although this should have been obvious to all who had examined the basis of his program for the commodity dollar, Wall Street chose to pull a face long enough to upset the day's trading and between the money changer and the moneychanger an unpleasant altercation threatens to develop. More significant than this, however, is the effect which the President's action must have on the growing tide of economic nationalism. A frank and cynical attempt by a great...
...complete isolation of the arm from the rest of the body. In the forward stroke, the shoulder, instead of following the arm, remained almost stationary. This caused the body to lie flat in the water, and the consequent lack of rolling was instrumental in accelerating their speed. The downward pull of the arm through the water was shortened, and the recovery made faster. This resulted in both arms being in the water at the same down; with two sources of power instead of one, speed increased immensely...
...Just as in 1917, we are seeking to pull in harness; just as in 1917. horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral. . . . There are hotheads who think that results can be obtained by noise or violence; there are insidious voices seeking to instill methods or principles which are wholly foreign to the American form of Democratic government. . . . The overwhelming majority of the workers understand, as do the overwhelming majority of the employers of the country, that this is no time to seek special privilege, undue advantage, or personal gain because of the fact...