Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things that went wrong. In few places were the Governor's parades properly arranged beforehand. In Chicago application for a parade permit was not made until too late to organize police supervision. In Detroit the Republican parade was so dawdling that the Nominee's car had to pull out of line and run ahead to the point where cheering crowds were waiting. At Detroit also his speaking stand was in centre field from which it took a full second or two for his voice to reach the grandstand, another second or two for applause to come back. Everywhere...
...much like the gold standard as companionate marriage is like holy wedlock. What had actually been done was to make the dollar, pound and franc companionate currencies pegged from day to day at a common level, with Washington, London or Paris free on 24 hours' notice to pull the pegs...
...Yellow Springs, to pull the trigger of the opening gun of the Mann Centenary, went Columbia's old Philosopher John Dewey, President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime U. S. Commissioner of Education George Frederick Zook, 370 other schoolmen. The Centenary will spread to the U. S. public schools to which Horace Mann contributed more than any other individual and on which his fame securely rests...
...Washington Administrator Hopkins promptly snorted: "It is too bad that he seems to think it necessary to pull this stuff that he can't get at our records. It's another of those red herrings. As a matter of fact, our records are open to him or to anybody who has a legitimate reason to see them, but we won't allow those records to be abused by individuals who would exploit them if they got their hands on them...
...shone brightly from the door of the trailer. The figure of a matronly woman appeared, sprang into the night. A tall, broad-shoulered man followed. Pell-mell down the dark hill they ran beside the rolling caravan. Then the woman jumped for the running board of the car to pull its brakes. She slipped, fell, lay groaning, while her distracted companion rushed to her side. The car rolled on, crunched solidly into a tree on the brink of the lake...