Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be received probably with an unpopular vote ? and that is an issue of Federal bonds for necessary public works and buildings. . . . The bonds can be offered by the Government direct to the people with the same patriotic appeal that was put behind the Liberty bonds. . . . They will pull out the hoarded money in sugar bowls, between the mattresses and in safe deposit boxes. . . . If it is all right to put the credit of the Government behind business, let the credit of the Government be used to keep the wolf of hunger from the doormat of millions of people...
...left wing of his Carrier Pigeon gave way, banged back against the fuselage, knocked the instrument board loose. Caught by the wind the instrument board was blown against Pilot Johnson's head, knocking him unconscious. At about 500 ft. Pilot Johnson regained sufficient sense to bail out, pull open his 'chute. Pilot: safe. Plane: wrecked. Mail: undamaged save for a few torn wrappings...
...final match, between Princeton and Harvard, the best that Harvard could do was to pull out a 2 to 2 tie thereby losing the tourney. In this match N. E. Long '32 succumbed to Forbes of Princeton who adopted a Sicilian defence and defeated Long in 32 moves, and A. G. Malkan '33 went down to defeat before the superior play of McCormick. The Harvard victories were registered by V. L. Eaton '34, who won from Rothschild of Princeton and by M. A. Mergentheim...
...said: "I'm confident an agreement will be reached at the wage conference and I'm hopeful for a solution of the railroads difficulties." He explained that $200,000,000 would come from a wage cut which, with the $100,000,000 from increased freight rates, would pull the carriers through. The Willard optimism gave a hopeful fillip to rail securities...
Anyone who can fly an ordinary airplane can, with little additional instruction, fly an autogiro. But the reverse is not true. If a 'giro-trained pilot should go up in an airplane, throttle down the engine and pull back on the control-stick, as he may safely do in a 'giro, he would have his first-possibly his last-experi-ence with a tailspin. An attempt to land vertically as in a 'giro would be similarly disastrous. Yet heretofore a student who passed his first Department of Commerce tests in a 'giro was given an ordinary...