Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baseball fans, aware that the Yankees have most of the best young baseballers in the U. S. tucked away on their farms, wondered if they would live to see, ever again, a pull-devil-pull-baker World Series...
...impetuous, romantic rise from the little West Kansas town where he was raised, son of a crack Union Pacific railroad engineer, Walter Chrysler had done something more than pull himself up by his bootstraps. Like most other successful U. S. businessmen he had picked his subordinates with unerring eye. And while he was sick and out of the game, no Chrysler stockholder suffered...
CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 13--It's a breeze to the Lee of the Windy City today for the Crimson leather luggers if the Sargeant Gards-ella and the Coleman from the Burry Ayres of Lake Michigan. Letts hope that the Devine Maroons are Spreyer than last season or pull some Lowry Helden ball tricks Elser score will be a Row of Zeros...
...never. Fire! Then I pull the periscope down, quickly to the starboard. There is breathless tension in the boat...
...Brooklyn saloon, Patrolman William Deichler did his favorite trick. Removing five bullets from his six-shooter, he said: "I'll pull the trigger and stop the bullet before it gets in my mouth." Patrolman Deichler lost count, pulled the trigger six times, fell dead...