Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preliminary contest, the Freshman team meets a strong Battery A, although the first year men are slightly favored to pull through ahead. They have shown exceptional ability this year. It will be remembered, however, that they fell before the experience of the Jayvee aggregation...
...kind of comic suspense on which early Harold Lloyd pictures were constructed. The mechanic in charge of a steam crane gets drunk. The Russian foreman orders him out of the cab and climbs in himself. With very little knowledge of how the contraption will react, he begins to pull its levers, manages, by the skin of his teeth, to avoid dropping several tons of cement on his underlings. Men and Jobs is not. essentially, entertainment, but it is a striking and intelligent advertisement for the Five-Year Plan. Good shot: the Russian foreman making a speech in which he tries...
...shutter was said to be operated by the first pull of the gun trigger. In normal combat practice a pilot would fire a burst from his gun to make sure it was in working order long before approaching as close to an enemy plane as the pictures indicated...
...Moon passes over the Atlantic the distance between London and Manhattan stretches by 63 ft., possibly the result of tidal pull.-Alfred Lee Loomis (Manhattan), Professor Harlan True Stetson (Ohio Wesleyan...
...provinces were getting better newspapers than they ever dreamed of. But all the publishing world knew the war was uneconomic in the extreme. Early last year the combatants began to pull their punches. Rothermere abandoned his expensive Newcastle paper on condition that Camrose withdraw from Bristol. Rumors of a more extensive truce gained in volume until last week when Northcliffe Newspapers Ltd., having never shown a profit, announced voluntary dissolution...