Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look at this idea of freedom. I will permit a baby, which has just learned to reach for an object, to pull out and push in a bureau drawer as often as it wants to in order to develop its sensory experience. But to let your two-year-old child, who doesn't need that type of sensory experience, pull out and push in a bureau drawer just because it wants to, is downright damaging to his growth...
...picked Roosevelt as ''Man of the Year" because, in spite of the tremendous pressure under which he labored, he has remained the same cultured, affable, and above all, sane gentleman that was elected President in 1932, and who during 1934 has done his level best to pull the country out of a hole...
...tour opened in Manhattan. Lean, spidery, baldish but still as spry as ever, Tilden started the evening by beating Lott at singles. At doubles, Lott & Stoefen won the first two sets, the second 16-14. Apparently exhausted, Tilden suddenly came to life, helped his partner Vines pull out the third set, 13-11. What happened then amazed a crowd of 15,000 who were getting ready to go home before midnight. Knowing as well as Promoter O'Brien that a victory for Lott & Stoefen would help the tour's gate receipts, Tilden & Vines suddenly became invincible, smashed through...
Earthquakes occur when the earth seeks relief from the strain of forces acting upon it-volcanic forces, shifts of pressure due to erosion, possibly tidal forces and the centrifugal pull of terrestrial rotation. There are vertical thrusts, sending up new islands to astonish mariners, building new mountains, deepening the seas; horizontal movements producing faults or sudden slips of rock masses along previously existing faults...
...Automobile Manufacturers Association) which sponsored the exhibits. But Ford, characteristically, never joined the industry's trade association. This year the show was staged not by the manufacturers but by their local dealers. Hence Mr. Ford exhibited. He sent cross-section displays, a team of two mechanics who could pull down a V-8 motor in six minutes, assemble it in ten, a cutaway car on a traveling belt which, when big blocks were tossed under its wheels, demonstrated what Ford calls "Center-Poise," balanced riding quality. And he also sent a modern...