Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firemen, gleefully tearing down walls and ceiling, were packed into the tiny room from which the smoke poured. Meanwhile, co-operative Crimson stalwarts helped pull hoses up to the roof of the building. Their ardor was some-what dampened when boisterous fire-fighters above, testing a hose, directed the stream of water at the undergraduates...
After 15 months the old Senator claimed his mistress had betrayed his business secrets, ordered his hotel managers to throw her out. They had to take her door off its hinges and pull up her carpet before they succeeded. Senator Sharon gave her a fat cash settlement, thought he was through with her. But after two years Sarah Althea produced a marriage contract she claimed they had signed, also displayed letters from him which began, "Dear Wife." The Senator brought suit in Federal court to have the papers declared forgeries. Sarah Althea countered with a State court divorce suit charging...
...them goes the need for wider scholarship aids, if American education is to fulfill its whole function in the community. A system of learning that excludes from a university education and hence from professional training, those whose ability and ambition is greater than their bank accounts does not pull its full load in a democratic society...
...ease, and they think he's good for 6' 2" if he's pressed. So that should turn out to be a very closely contested event, for Dartmouth has a couple of boys good for 6' 1" anyway, and Jaakko will send Bob Haydock out there hoping he will pull the first place. Haydock did 6' 2" in the B.A.A. games, and should be able to push Badman and the Big Green's Eldridge and Cuffe. Here may be decided the fate of Cornell's opponents...
...accused Mr. Atlas of being "The World's Greatest Fakir." Mr. Atlas, roared Mr. Hoffman in his Strength & Health, "does not have a 17-in. bicep as he claims. He does not have a 14½in. forearm. He does not have a 47-in. chest. He cannot pull six autos with his teeth. He cannot lift 250 Ib. above his head five or six times without straining. . . .I defy him to carry 500 Ib. five or six blocks or one block with or without straining. He cannot run ten miles in an hour and he cannot...