Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Pull. During 1937 the beginning of the Japanese invasion found the Generalissimo then "the only man in China who did not think it best to fight." In his shrewd head Chiang Kai-shek knew better than anyone else that the New China was not yet ready to use her War Machine; that to fight would be to incur the catastrophic losses China has now suffered; that his Government would inevitably be driven from Nanking; that the hand of the Chinese Communists would be immensely strengthened-unless Japan's triumph should indeed be utter & complete. Knowing all this, Chiang...
Whatever their prospects, they play Wednesday night. Take Skip's word for it; they may pull some fast ones...
...everyone's disappointment and everyone's ultimate benefit. Mr. Duranty has loss success when he tackles the subject of the comparative success of Christianity and Communism as a working philosophy in "The Spirit Within." He merely states the proposition that they are opposed to one another seems to pull a weak and mystical oar in favor of the former. On the whole he is better on the humorous side and when he sticks fairly close to experience and does not labor his imagination with too great burdens
...magnetic device to prevent high-speed trains from jumping the track on curves. The centrifugal pull of the train as it rounds a bend would automatically increase the magnetic grip between train and rails...
...year Anderson was more inclined to believe that a new particle really existed than that the Bethe-Heitler theory was at rault. Further help for the theory came from the researches of Caltech's H. Victor Neher at San Antonio, Tex., and Madras, India. Cosmic ray particles are pulled toward the earth's poles by its magnetic field. Particles of high energy resist this pull, and so predominate in the region of the Equator. The latitude difference between Madras (13° N.) and San Antonio (29° N.) furnished valuable data on electrons in the energy band between...