Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Walter Lippmann braved the wrath of his fellow newsmen by advising Harry Truman to pull in his horns and his feet...
This year, the comet was due again, and astronomers calculated that this time the earth would pass only 131,000 miles from the place it had been eight days before. As astronomers measure distances, this is a cat's-whisker miss. The earth's gravitational pull would capture thousands, perhaps millions, of meteors: small bits of straggling comet stuff. When they plunged into the atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour and turned into incandescent gas, the show would be the best since...
Robert S. Leventhal '48, advertising manager of the CRIMSON, was elected chairman of the Smoker Committee. He stated, "The Class of '48 has been far from a unit from its date of entry, due to wartime conditions. The Smoker's aim is to pull the original men of the class, and those gained by transfers, together into an actual class, so that '48 will have a formal graduation with Class Day exercises and permanent class officers...
...Washington, Reparations Representative Ed Pauley prepared a report for President Truman recommending that the U.S. pull up its socks in Korea: as in Germany, there was no point in simply waiting for Russian cooperation on unified control of the country. Japanese reparations to Korea must be sped up, machinery moved into the U.S. zone of Korea and economic aid supplied, so that the whole area will develop into a unit capable of independent government. The U.S., said Pauley, has a clear opportunity and responsibility to demonstrate to Koreans that democracy will work better than Communism...
Faced with these cold facts, money-losing corporations, which had kept payrolls fat in hopes that peak production would pull them out of the red, now began to think about trimming. After the stockmarket crash, Wall Streeters had predicted that many a businessman would start using the ugly word "retrenchment" instead of expansion. Last week, in one of the country's key industries, at least, it looked as if the retrenchment had started...