Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...created are: a true and enlightened humility that with unerring sense seeks, welcomes and uses the cooperation of other men of sound knowledge and patriotic purposes; and second that good will which springs from a full heart and which inspires good will in men of all ranks to pull together for the success of the cause. It is attested by thousands of colleagues, lieutenants and subordinates in the ranks. It met with instinctive recognition in the two thousand people who heard Mr. Hoover at the Copley Plaza. The writer has seen the reaction on public meetings of all the great...
...Finally we must make the laborer understand that he has an opportunity to improve his station. We must destroy the conviction now universally held by the laboring classes that 'hard work don't pay; it's only pull that gets the good jobs the only way to advance is to marry the boss's daughter...
...quarterfinals, Killar faced more of a challenge, as he was matched with Kirk White of Boise State. In a heated, high-scoring battle White was able to pull out a 12-11 victory on his way to eventually winning the national title...