Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very feet of the advancing line of forwards who are dribbling it down the field with their feet, displays all alone quite as much if not more courage than the line which holds four successive downs on the one-yard line and then takes time out to pull itself together. Rugby has no substitutions, and if a player is so badly hurt that he cannot continue the play his team goes on without him. Rugby is a game-American football is by now a mechanized system...
...These men are husky and have raised no objection to doing the work. A cotton planter weighs less than 100 lb., the ground has been thoroughly pulverized and bedded twice, and it requires no great effort to pull it. The men are being worked for only a reasonable length of time each day, and certainly have shown no ill effects from the work...
...awakened citizens of Danville induced the Cincinnati Southern Railway to survey its municipally owned "Queen and Crescent'' route via Danville, Ky., but notwithstanding this the stubborn old L. & N. refuses to make connection at the crossing and I've seen the latter's passenger trains pull out leaving Q. & C. passengers frantically trying to board the L. & N. Truly a dead hand governs the situation at Junction City, in the very geographical centre of Old Kentucky. Lesson: Beware, Hotel Clerks, lest you entertain angels unawares! COL. CLARENCE E. WOODS...
...such idealistic purpose in view. But in this respect the Democrats are merely following in the footsteps of the Republicans Neither party has ever let go of the power to control local politics through the use of the Federal machinery of appointment and what is known as Federal "pull...
...other day interested passers by might have been mildly surprised to see a huge van pull up and stop in front of the Lowell House west gate. Three rather surly looking, individuals in coveralls disembarked, opened up the rear of the truck and began pulling out sacks of mall. There were eleven monstrous canvas bags, each sealed and franked with the impressive insignia of the United States government. Slowly and laboriously they were dragged, one at a time, up the steps to the quarters of a studious sophomore, who received in great astonishment both the bags and the black looks...