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Word: pulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some 90 strikers maneuvered about the town in mass formation, dodged the police, jeered. They were set upon by a dozen officers with clubs and bayonets. Two strikers, aged 15 and 16 were arrested, lodged in jail. Mrs. Callie Jones saw her young son in the melee, rushed to pull him forth, was arrested for profanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: War of Attrition | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...flowing through the slot before it. Thus the wing gets no air lift on that side and it drops until it is level with the previously dropping wing on the other side of the fuselage. Thus does the pilot have a good opportunity to prevent a spin and to pull his plane out of its stall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Slot Interceptor | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...spin, or nose dive. Otto W. Greene, gaunt Elyria, Ohio, inventor, showed an aero-dynamic automatic control. It consisted of a small vane projected from a wing of his model plane. As the plane tilted or teetered the vane lagged and activated levers which forced the controls automatically to pull his model back to its course. No practical plane yet uses this device. Only one ship at the show was equipped with the De Havilland safety slot which greatly retards stalls and landing speeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Detroit Show | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...exact reproduction of the original engine used by the Catamounts. R. McH. Chilson '31, J. C. Fiske '30, J. B. Garrison '31, E. L. Gates '30, Barrett Hoyt '30, and Pliny Jewell, Jr. '31, who will be garbed in the costumes of the "Fire B' hoys" will pull the engine on its maiden trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORIC ENGINE MAKES DEBUT IN SQUARE TODAY | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

Frank Billings Kellogg planned to remain over three days at the State Department to help Statesman Stimson pull on his rubber boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Number One Man | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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