Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Republicans to prevent the election of a Democrat as Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee (see page 3) : "This bird from Maryland flopped when all that was needed to elect Smith was his vote. . . . The promise of the average politician who uses fine words in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the people is like a rabbit sausage. Fifty-fifty- one horse and one rabbit. The people get the rabbit and the great corporations get the horse...
Next--would the church be justified in changing the Creeds? Now the Anglican Catholic Church (commonly known in this country as the Episcopal Church) bases its whole Catholic claim on two facts; its acceptance of the Creeds, and its Apostolic Succession. It would scarcely be reverent to pull down this structure by changing the Creeds, as the structure was founded by Christ. Neither would it be wise, for the Church would then fall into the seething whirlpool of two hundred and fifty-six protestant sects; which, as they become more modernistic, become more agnostic and farther from Christianity...
...most patent features of the new rowing style to the ordinary observer are the hard catch, quick pull-through finishing lower than usual, the lightning shoot of the hands away from the body, the coordination of movement between shoulders and knees throughout. This latter forms the most pronounced break from the system employed by Coach Muller last spring. The latter had his men come all the way forward before moving the slide at at all. The new style calls for proportional movement all around,--first the hands, then almost simultaneously the shoulders follow with the slide starting at once...
...soon sets in after that hour, practice became too short to bring successful results. The present arrangement enables the first four-oared shells to take the water by 3.15 o'clock. Between this hour and darkness there is sufficient time to give each shell a four or five-mile pull. Each man by this arrangement is able to row three and sometimes four days a week. There are at present 28 men out for the University crew...
Congressional investigation of the conduct of the Veterans' Bureau (TIME, Nov. 5) continued with more hearings before a sub-committee of the Senate. The evidence presented, while almost entirely that of the investigators, pointed to a network of graft and political " pull." Some of the charges were...