Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work on clues of incendiarism. They questioned Alexander Schein-zeit, owner of the celluloid plant, who said he had had labor troubles and had also been warned by business rivals that he was in for a "bitter fight." Another possible cause for the explosion was a knife-type electric pull-switch which Labor Inspector John Roach found in the ruins of the plant. New Jersey's labor laws forbid such switches near inflammable materials...
Thrapston kept the lead, with Hyperion galloping two lengths behind, till the race rounded Tattenham Corner. There Thrapston lagged. Weston shouted to Donoghue to pull over. Instantly Hyperion shot ahead on the inside rail, with King Salmon pounding at his heels. Once he began to slow up, but at a single crack from the whip he raced away from the field, plunged over the line four lengths ahead of King Salmon, splitting two-fifths of a second off the Derby record. King Salmon, the entry of Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, finished second; Statesman, owned by ambitious Victor Emanuel, president...
...Denver, Colo., Mrs. Mary Benson, middle-aged and stout, squatted in the tub for her bath, got wedged under the faucets, grew weak, could not pull herself out. Four days later Mrs. F. A. Jones, a neighbor, discovered her plight and called the police, but in her excitement gave the wrong address. When she telephoned again the operator said it was a funny story but not to bother her any more. After still a third call, police came to fetch Neighbor Jones for questioning as a suspicious character, but she induced them to visit the entubbed Mrs. Benson. There they...
When Father Dawes's health began to fail in 1889, it was Rufus who took over his lumber business, saw the family through the next few years, Charley was away in Nebraska, Beman and Henry were too young. Wrote the father in 1890: "Rufus will pull the stroke oar over the coming year in our business. . . . He shows excellent judgment and great capacity...
...Eric Linden) into breaking his engagement on the ground that his fianceé (Frances Dee) does not love him enough. The girl tries to commit suicide by jumping into a lake and it strikes Mrs. Phelps as deplorable that her sons do not put on overcoats before going to pull her out. Then she does her best to spoil the marriage of her older son (Joel McCrea) -on the ground that his wife (Irene Dunne) is selfishly ambitious. This young lady finally outwits Mrs. Phelps with a dissertation on the maternal emotion which sounds particularly astringent coming so close...