Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What is the use?" he sobbed. "We have tried to pull our country up to the standard of others so that we could look at other nations with a feeling of equality and rightly demand mutual respect. Now it appears that all these efforts are coming to naught...
...sharks slashed at them, the other terror-stricken sailors drove off their tormentors. Finally Lieut. A. C. Keller spotted the survivors from his naval plane, dropped smoke bombs and plunged down in dangerous power dives which frightened off the sharks long enough for the Mendota to reach the scene, pull the exhausted mariners from the water 40 miles from the grave of the luckless Tzenny Chandris...
...started, but no one was willing to admit it. A period of retrenchment, a short deflation, was all that people called it. The Stadium and Bowl were still filled. It was still the period of graduate coaching and no public sale. Barry Wood and Captain Ben Ticknor managed to pull out a Harvard victory...
...Republicans who gave special privileges to corporations with the New Dealers who give bounties to farmers. Mr. Lippmann finds that these favors cannot be wisely dispensed by a democracy. "The gradual collectivist. . . has to believe that an elected parliament will distribute its privileges according to the push and pull of organized interests. Is this conceivable in a democracy?" This conception of democracy's limitations is quite different from that of the founding father who said: "The regulation of these various and interfering interests (landed, mercantile, monied, etc.) forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party...
...last minute of play. And they have facts on which to base their case. But those who have watched the squad in its practices this fall and have seen the power they are capable of generating, refuse to believe that traditional Eli luck or Clint Frank skill will pull this one out of the fire...