Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since Caillaux, a hawk-nosed, bald-pated man with an aristocratic bearing and a pair of dark, shrewd, inquisitive eyes, was liberated from the banishment to which he was sentenced in 1920 by the Senatorial High Court (TIME, Dec. 1). He immediately went to Paris and began forthwith to pull political strings. He reminded the enthusiastic Radicals and Socialists who greeted him as a prodigal son that he was and always has been a moderate Republican. It was a shrewd bid for power, for Caillaux knew that he could never appear before the Senate with any hope of victory unless...
...expounding here the belief which he has expressed in several magazine articles recently, that journalism needs to pull itself up by its bootstraps...
...modern male still has a chance to pull himself from the disgraceful mire of effeminacy into which he has been steadily sinking since the razing of the Victorian forest primeval. Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, M.P., has recently been warming the Atlantic cables with a revolutionary, proposal for all men to grow beards...
...pull" in this world...
...Gymnasium was completed, he spent many hours on the track, counting the laps by reciting the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Since the building of the Charles River dam, he has rowed more than 7,000 miles in an 11-foot shell. He celebrated his seventieth birthday by a pull to Watertown Dam and back. "Thus," he says, "I have tried to keep up through mature life the bodily activity to which I was used...