Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five vital courses. Certainly Professor Brooks is more than competent to give an introductory course, and failing him, there are others such as Dr. Lange of the Blue Hill Observatory. With a little encouragement the Department can perhaps throw away its good-old-days-we're-liked-now policy, pull itself together, and offer courses in a valuable branch of science...
Holdup. At Shanghai this week as the U. S. Dollar Line's 22,000-ton President Coolidge prepared to pull out of the Yangtze mouth, Shanghai customs officials, acting on orders from Japanese military authorities, suddenly suspended the vessel's clearance papers. Reason: stowed aboard was silver worth $4,500,000, mostly bullion belonging to the Chinese Government but some of it jewelry and silver ware donated by patriotic Chinese for the purchase of war materials. The consignment was on its way to New York's Chase National Bank. The Japanese claimed that the silver rightfully belonged...
...Liberty League) Shouse working for WPA. Not on work relief, serious-looking Elizabeth Shouse, 26, was hired last month as an expert to supervise the work of 14 WPAsters repairing school books in the District of Columbia. Pay: $136 a month. Said Miss Shouse with obvious truth: "No political pull was involved...
...group of Adrian citizens built in 1836 the Erie & Kalamazoo R.R., linking the navigable waters of the Kalamazoo River with Lake Erie. Only 22 miles long, it was the first railroad west of Schenectady. A pair of horses hitched in tandem pulled the original two-story, twelve-passenger day coach or "pleasure car." When addition of a 20-horsepower, wood-burning locomotive failed to pull Erie & Kalamazoo through ten years of hard times, it was sold to satisfy creditors...
...chance because he had what we would call "the gift of gab" and, more important, what we would call "pull." He succeeded because he had courage and because he was lucky...