Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only legitimate and useful purpose for which a nation should maintain armaments is for self defense. . . . Armaments may reach a point where they cease to give security. . . . The expenditures on armaments are greater today than they were before the War. . . . We are not going to pull very far out of this Depression unless we reduce armaments and make a genuine success of this Conference...
...last week that Avco had lost money since its birth,* but he did say that the fight with Mr. Cord had been brewing for months because of Cord's efforts to "jam Stinson planes down the company's throats." Cord builds Stinsons and the Lycoming engines that pull them. Old guard Avco men said that Cord was a poor transport man, that his Century Lines lost money, that he would cut pilots' pay below the minimum of safety and efficiency. (He had labor troubles with the Century pilots.) Another complaint: Cord had studded the Avco ranks with...
...Higgins' sons are 9 and 7. "I lost five pounds in the campaign and I'm proud of my figure. Look here. There's nothing extra in there," he had said to the clerk in the town hall while waiting for four other voters to pull the levers on the machine before he did. "You must have been sitting up pretty late [to hear his speeches] while I was in California. The time is so much different there...
Spitting on their hands, 600 brawny Breton & Norman shipwrights rushed out to the launching ways, took their stations and stood ready to pull the wedges. The stupendous hull (longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall) had been anointed with 43 tons of tallow, two-and-one-half tons of lard and more than a ton of soap. The grease alone cost 150,000 francs...
...droll doctor is Rollo Eugene Dyer, assistant director of the National Institute of Health. His favorite drollery last summer was to pull up his trouser leg and exhibit a small, fine-meshed cage strapped to his skin. Friends peeping into the cage beheld a herd of fleas contentedly nipping at the doctor's epidermis. Raillery was always in order. Dr. Dyer is a collector of stamps. Had he now become a flea collector? He is fond of dogs. Was he shielding his dogs from vermin? No, Dr. Dyer would chuckle, and his friends seldom realized that he had ceased...