Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since just such a rear-engine car is now in its second year of sleek production by Mercédés, Nazis might well smirk at President Stout's exhortation to the U. S. automotive industry to pull itself together and build likewise. Standardized U. S. cars he found "so alike . . . that a price war has started which eventually must ruin the industry if economic history is right. . . . What is needed at this stage is not so much intellectualism that can design the car, or intelligence that can run the firm, but somebody who is 'smart...
...submerged and forgotten in the landslide of 1934. What made the name of Franklin Roosevelt so big, so black, so bold, was the fact that the wealthiest single nation of the modern world had committed itself as never before to one man in a do-or-die attempt to pull itself out of a deep, dark economic hole...
...acute pangs of childbirth were troubling Mrs. J. E. Graham of Carbondale, Pa. and Mrs. W. N. Wagner of Waterford. Mich. Jounced by the waters beyond endurance, they presented such a spectacle of woe that even with bandits hot on the junks trail there was nothing to do but pull ashore. In a rude Chinese peasant hut Missionary Doctor George Totell of Chicago performed the hasty, almost simultaneous deliveries-from Mrs. Graham a daughter, then from Mrs. Wagner a son. Piling back aboard the junks, the 36 who had become 38, tore on to safety, arrived splashed and wind-bitten...
Bennington girls have lost no time in extending their freedom to dress. At the approach of winter they pull on skiing outfits and keep them on, except for the winter recess, until they exchange them for shorts in the spring. Most of the girls come from New England or New York. Many are debutantes. To go out with Williams men and stay out as late as they like, they need only notify the college office in advance. During the winter they ski. skate, gather in a general store for tea and talk. This year some of them are running...
This staccato tone, appropriate in the youngest Premier France has ever had, galvanized hope that Frenchmen may be able to pull out of depression without going to Fascist, Nazi, Soviet or pinko extremes...