Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method is to dissolve the mystery of grand opera, to destroy the traditions that it is only for the highly cultured: to exploit the human pull which lived in the hearts of great composers and which now lives in their compositions. Jazz we hear and forget. Its lilt wears for the moment and then fades. But even the most untutored in music can retain the memories which a great composer's idea inculcates into a musical drama...
...Indeed yes,' simpered Lelia as to the manner born, with a good pull at her garters, at which the perfunctory Mr. Withersq ran into the road and he soon found a fresh-looking taxi...
...State for Foreign Affairs, on foreign policy, part of which was not published by order of Premier Baldwin. The published part of his speech concerned mainly a review of the Ruhr problem and of the Treaty of Lausanne (TIME, Aug. 6). He doubted that Germany would be able to pull through her present chronic ailment and said that "the internal disruption of Germany which we had all along feared, but which we had consistently been told to regard as a bogy ... is not merely an ominous political symptom; it has pretentious economic significance, for it means the ultimate disappearance...
Twenty-one and two-tent's horse power in a test of 25 feet on a cinder-surfaced road were developed by Cap and King, a pair of 10-year-old Percheron geldings, in unique pulling tests at the Iowa State Fair, Des Moines. By means of a hydraulic wagon, or dynamometer, recently invented, the "tractive pull" of horse teams was determined with scientific accuracy for the first time. This is the kind of energy required to pull a varying weight out of a hole in the ground. The winning pair exerted a maximum tractive pull of 2,300 pounds...
What is there left to analyze, then, when one tries to pull them apart? A mood?a moment?a fragrance? sorrow?joy?a living man, a living woman, suddenly, completely seen...