Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jealous Moon" is whimsy in a fantastic Italian comic setting. Pierrot, Columbine and Harlequin are on the tiny stage of a travelling puppet show, and above them, in the miniature flies of the little stage, are the human selves of Jane Cowl, Philip Merivale and Guy Standing, who pull the strings of the dangling waggle-headed dolls. In the second act Peter Parrot, played by Philip Merivale, dreams all the company of puppeteers into the character and garden scene of the miniature play...
...lifted against the earth's force of gravity and swiftly moved with or against earth's rotational force. The possibility of such change may account for some airplane accidents. Perhaps such possible changes can be foreseen, calculated, forestalled. Perhaps?not to venture upon any more specific perhapses-?he pull of the Einstein intellect will raise mankind yet higher by the bootstraps...
...they ever change the bulbs, I wonder? In the lamps, I mean. Two bum out of three. No, there's three up there. You can feel. Pull the chains. One and two and three. Try the chains on the one down that end. Maybe they work in some kind of combination that they don't turn on in the morning. Try two at a time. You didn't pull together. It makes just one noise when you do. Listen...
Albert Einstein now applies it himself to explain earthly physical activities-the pull of gravity, the pulsations of electromagnetic waves or quanta...
...soon became evident that the Pennsylvania and Loree interests had joined for a run-run-pull-away match against the New York Central, B. & O. and Van Sweringen interests. At the year's end the situation was this...