Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smithers is supposed to have improvised verses, of which the following is a sample: When there are grey skies We don't mind the grey skies, You make them blue, Stanley Boy. Though foes may mistake thee We'll not forsake thee, You'll pull us through, Stanley...
...community. In early May typhoid fever appeared at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The nearest hospital was 183 miles away at The Pas. A few patients got through the blizzard. Twelve, on a train, with three score nurses, physicians and railway employes, were snowed in. Three locomotives could not pull them free. Food grew low. Snow was melted for drink. Engine fires were killed to save fuel. Telephone poles were chopped down for more heat. After days a dog team passed by. The hungry trainload confiscated its provender. Rescuers brought food and medicine by horse and hand sleighs. Finally...
...Reid '29 was another double winner taking first in the mile and in the two mile. The canny Harvard leader try to pull J. O. Wildes '29 and Leslie Flaksman '29 over the finish line behind him in the two events respectively, and, failing in this, was extended to finish ahead of Rick in the mile and Butterworth in the two mile, a pair of Green dark horses who fooled the experts by their running...
...crews got off from the starting line and rowed over the first half mile of the course with all three crews abreast. Here Pearson's shell started to pull away gradually as rougher water was encountered, until it had a length and a half margin over Sturges' crew just beyond the Harvard Bridge. The strokes dropped to 29 and 28 as the water grew more troublesome, and the three boats continued downstream and across the finish line with the Sophomores three lengths ahead of the Junior eight, and Lawrence's Sophomore crew another length in the rear. The winning crew...
...Lord Mayor of London is almost invariably a different sort of man from his counterpart in a great U. S. city such as Chicago or New York. Political pull cannot elevate an Englishman to the post whose incumbent has authority to grant (and hence to refuse) permission to the King-Emperor to pass Temple Bar, traditional gateway to the City of London. Great wealth and an established, honorable position in the business community are the well-nigh indispensable qualifications of any Londoner who would become "My Lord Mayor." The office is really honorary, the incumbency only one year. Anyone...