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Word: pulley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal job was analyzing the one unmistakable clue left by the kidnaper: a crude wooden ladder that had been used to reach the nursery window. Koehler proved that the Southern pine slats in the ladder could only have been honed in one factory in South Carolina with a defective pulley on the planer, then traced the boards further to a lumberyard in The Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nightmare Remembered | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

...Adams House Drama Society pushed every button, pulled every level, manipulated every winch and pulley that the Loeb Pleasure Palace houses in its bottomless toy box, in an immense and elaborate hymn to tedium. Peer Gynt fell--like the silly feathered pig which makes an agonizing descent from the rafters (while the actors stand and star, speechless)--with a long long, oh so long thud. (Three long hours...

Author: By Allan Katz, | Title: Peer Gynt | 3/25/1961 | See Source »

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