Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other innocent lopings: "Won't You-Pull Over?", "Should Admirals Shave?", "The Temptation of Anthony," "The Origin and Growth of the Tiller Girls...
...brief his theory is this : Eons ago a Star, swished near the Sun and by its gravity, sucked a great, explosive cloud of gases from the gaseous Sun. The cloud twirled out into interstellar space, following the Star for a way, until the Star's gravitational pull on the cloud became less than the Sun's. By that time the particles of the gases-hydrogen, oxygen, helium, iron, etc.-had acquired a gravity of their own. The Sun could not pull them back into its own churning self. Nor could the particles keep shooting away from...
...Pons, the late Prime Minister Justin Louis Emile Combes 1903-1905. Due to his efforts the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished in France, and ever since Combes has been a hero to the parties of the Left and to the Clericals a dastard. As Edouard Herriot prepared to pull the unveiling cord, he was conscious that a crowd by no means wholly friendly surged around him. Raising his deep timbred voice in sonorous appeal the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts cried: "After a lifetime of bitter struggle, Emile Combes declared: 'I never expect justice from my adversaries...
...other negative; with two magnets the positive of one attracts the negative of the other, the positive and negative of one repel the positive and negative of the other; cobalt steel can be so highly magnetized that its repellent power can support a relatively large weight against the pull of gravity...
...cement made a famed Czechoslovak architect put pistol to his temple and pull the trigger...