Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modeled a puncher throwing his weight on the off stirrup, helping his horse keep his feet during "The Hard Pull." In the anxious faces of horse and man, in the wrenched positions of girth and pommel, a steer they had roped and were dragging out of a bog became almost visible. The proportions and positions of Student Wheeler's first three models were indeed too natural for one teacher, who declared they had no "art" in them. But even this criticism died away when Sculptor Wheeler returned from a visit to the Messrs. Korner & Wood with a quotation...
...devoted to Lord Northcliffe.... I mothered him. I gave him advice when he needed it, and he gave me leave to pull him up and prevent his making a fool of himself.... I did that several times...
...freeze. From Detour to the "Soo" they stretched in long file, like sausages linked out over a gutter of lard. Reefered sailors dog-trotted up and down the long iron decks; flapped their cold arms against their bodies, like turkeys trying to fly to a shed roof; dared not pull off their mittens to blow their noses. There was wind and snow. Men hunched up their shoulders and pulled their necks into sweater collars. Like horses miserable in a gale, they turned their backs to the blowing...
Fifteen minutes later there pulled up on the siding next the faithful a titanic freight locomotive, geared to pull 110 freight cars at 40 miles an hour. It puffed mockingly at Mr. Denihan and his friends. Attached to it was one lone daycoach, at which covetous glances were cast...
This morning special trains on the New Haven's two routes the Shore Line and the Williamtic Hartford Line will begin to leave at 7:20 o'clock. At ten minute intervals after this parlor car coaches will pull out of the South Station for the game center. The Harvard Limited an all steel coach train for students will leave Boston at 8:10 o'clock. The last train starts at 8:30 o'clock...