Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...line of humor," have profited in their business to such a degree that they were able to offer Hans Wagner a fabulous sum to play for them. Although he refused, being unwilling to associate with such an unscrupulous body, these wielders of the shears and paste-pot will undoubtedly pull of some equally delicate bit of delicious humor to maintain their dubious reputation. It is rumored that F. Beets Boodle, notorious in sporting circles, and a former Philadelphia star, will attempt to fill the gap between second and third base, while the unearned increment will be devoted to pumping...
...honor of a certain Mr. Biff Hall, lately elected alderman, and was assigned to a seat beside him. At the close of the dinner a great loving-cup was passed around, each man giving an appropriate toast. When it got to Mr. Ade he rose and said "Hall, pull, graft, alderman...
...only new men in the boat are R. Cutler and L. Withington, both members of last year's Freshman crew, who are rowing 6 and 5 respectively. Individually every man has had experience, having rowed in at least one race at New London, and as a whole the men pull well together...
...clean-cut, hard-earned victory, one in which an evenly balanced Harvard team of great power and resourcefulness outwitted and outgeneralled a Yale team which was well up to the average, but which met a team even cleverer and more determined than themselves when they tried to pull another game out of the fire in the second half. It was a source of the keenest delight to the Harvard stands to see men substituted from time to time, one man here to score the field goal, another there to bolster up the defence, and still another to meet Yale...
...work of the University crew was poor from the start, with a noticeable hang at the finish and no life in the catch. The pull through was not smooth, and the boat ran badly between strokes. On the whole, the showing of the crew was disappointing. Today and tomorrow the practice will be devoted to racing starts...