Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November 1917: 'If I may be permitted to do so, I want to express my admiration of his patriotic courage, his large vision and his statesmanlike sense of what has to be done. I like to lay my mind alongside of a mind that knows how to pull in harness. The horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral...
...study in human nature," explains Mr. Cohan. "I guess you would call it a comedy, but it's got a serious note in it. This fellow O'Neill doesn't ring the bell, he lets you pull it. The play just shows you this fellow's observation. You wouldn't call this a part I've got at all. It's a study. This fellow's got a great reading public, too -I imagine he has, anyway, and so it's got to be looked at from a literary standpoint...
...first three mornings I went, coming out each time inspired and glad within. But now I pull down the shades when I come into my room. At every one who mentions the word "chapel," I make a fierce noise, somewhat resembling the growl of a baited bear. I am no longer myself. My soul, I fear, is lost...
What really overthrew Machado, killed the officers of the Plaza Hotel, and pitched Cuba into an anarchy from which, it appears, only a brutal rule can pull her, was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1929. The very gentle ex-Senator Smoot of Utah, who alternates his campaign for literary purity with an effective defense of Western and Southern United States sugar concerns, was able in this piece of legislation largely to exclude Cuban sugar from the American market, thus in a rather short space of time ruining the island's main industry, provoking the violent unrest born of poverty which...
Skeet tries to duplicate the typical hunting situation of pointing dog, tense gunner, unpredictable game birds. Unlike trap-shooters, skeeters may not raise gun to shoulder until the target appears. That may be any time within three seconds after the shooter cries "Pull." Skeeter Henry Bourne Joy, onetime president of Packard Motor Car Co., has invented an electric variable timer which throws targets with unbiased irregularity...