Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four years later, this time at Houston, he was again chosen to nominate his "Happy Warrior." But in 1928 "Al" wanted more assistance from his loyal friend "Frank" than a nominating speech. He needed a good strong name at the head of the New York Democratic ticket to help pull the state for his national ticket. Mr. Roosevelt was swimming at Warm Springs when Nominee Smith telephoned from New York that he must run for Governor. Now he had definite plans for re-entering public life, to be sure, but it took the cajoling of his wife...
...hordes of good students have applied for high-school positions. If school boards were capable of selecting wisely, they might equip their institutions with young men who, though suffering from the defects of American university methods have the ability to raise the intellectual level of secondary teaching. But, unfortunately, pull or a "smooth line" are likely to determine the selection of applicants in many places, and the majority of male teachers will continue for a while to be lazy, dull, and conservative...
...Without warning another local swept round the bend and smashed full into the standing train's rear, plowed through almost its entire length. Wooden cars splintered like match boxes, dead and dying were strewn along the right-of-way. Peasants running up from the fields did their best to pull maimed bodies from the wreckage. They were laid on the parallel track while telegraph operators wired Moscow frantically for help. Suddenly a freight train, proudly burdened with Soviet goods, bore down from the opposite direction. The wounded could not move. The freight could not stop...
...imprudent enough to fly the short-cut spotted the stranded plane, hurried on to Miami whence an autogiro and two Goodyear blimps were sent to the rescue. Gently the blimp Puritan eased itself down until the men could grasp the railing around the bottom of the gondola, pull themselves aboard. No one could think of a way to recover the airplane, which was undamaged...
...their most beautiful and costly possession. Its esthetic appeal is at once its weakness and its strength, for the potential owner who need not buy for necessity must be made to buy for pleasure. If he bought enough, the automobile industry might again perform its magic trick, might pull Prosperity out of Depression...