Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This summer President Samuel M. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works talked draw-bar-pull and horsepower hours beside the Moskva. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks talked a Russian cinema trust. Potent hydroelectric engineer Hugh Lincoln ("Muscle Shoals") Cooper proposed to harness the mighty Dnieper with dams and turbines. These purposeful people came to Moscow on business, have returned with the reticence of those who have set themselves to accomplish definite ends. Last week the press noted pronouncements of another sort of U. S. traveler to Russia...
...thus. Coach Brown expects to be able to find each man's ability much more easily than by putting all the best men in a single eight. Several inexperienced coxswains were tried out and given preliminary instructions during the afternoon. Coach Heard also gave his men a rather heavy pull for the first day, taking them about three miles at a slightly higher stroke than the University rowed...
...enough to enable a man to stand creet and walk comfortably, providing that the walker does not mind a temperature of over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Everywhere, that is except the point where it crosses Massachusetts Avenue. At this point the subterranean traveler must get in a little car and pull himself over the small space between the street surface and the so-called Elevated...
...some value lurked in the system of student advisers. There seemed no valid reason why old students should not welcome new and give them comforting and needed information regarding their new environment. Yet Harvard is noted for a distinct reserve. There are here none of the college mechanism which pull the startled freshman, almost unwillingly, into the maelstrom. Moreover, other features of the University, commendable in their conception, have led to decidedly undesirable conditions. Among other things, the segregation of freshmen in halls at a remote distance from the Yard, whether or not based on plausible theory, accentuated the natural...
...Planes droned overhead, at intervals, but from their sound it was plain that the wrecked Curtiss racer was invisible from above. Flyer Bettis eyed the downslope of the mountain and started creeping on his three good members, with a limp thing dragging over the windfalls. At clearings he would pull himself erect and hop along from tree to bush, every jolt costing him a groan. At seven o'clock by his watch he heard automobiles, and two hours later he came to a field's edge. Occasionally a car went by, but smashed jaws cannot shout...