Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maiden aunt in love with the father. Spring, a week late, hit Paris with an intoxicating sequence of superb days. Out in the country, wheat, barley and oats looked good; the 1,500,000 vineyard owners had their spring shoots in the ground; fishermen were beginning to pull in their annual 5,000 tons of fish from France's inland waters. In Brittany it is the time for spring pardons-the old, unique, Breton folk custom that permits the peasant to approach the Deity through various saints, and which means a season of blessings, benedictions, reunions, torchlight parades, holidays...
There is no obligation on the King or Queen to take any journalists on their laps or invite them to pull up chairs and shoot olive pits with them...
...into the plant Martin told friends he had a ship coming off the drawing boards that would revolutionize military aviation. It did. The ship was the Martin B10, a two-motored monoplane. With a range of 1,800 miles and a bomb load of 2,400 pounds, it could pull away from any pursuit ship then in the air at a top speed of 250 miles an hour. The U. S. Army took 151 of them, the Argentine 35, The Netherlands 117. The last of the Netherlands order is being set up for flight this week in Java. Altogether...
...other planes is built up of longitudinal braces, bulkheads and stringers, the framework of this Greenwood-Yates Geodetic Bi-Craft is woven of spruce strips. It resembles nothing more than a woven basket covered with fabric to keep out the breeze, powered with two 50-h.p. engines to pull it through the air. Its structure is called geodetic because the Greenwood-Yates ribbing is laid entirely in curves...
Yale is definitely the boat to beat, and on the dead water of Princeton's lake, the Crimson will have a hard pull but indications are in its favor, while Princeton does not present much of a threat...