Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the animal is placed upon the plane in a position parallel to the base, the gravitational pull upon the two sides of the body is different. This differential effect produces a torque; which occurs as the animal starts to climb upward and is mechanically turned around until he reaches a position where the pull becomes the same on the two sides of the body. Here the torque disappears, and the animal can now proceed forward in a straight line. This line or path the animal takes forms an acute angle with the base of the plane and the magnitude...
...same number of scheduled games. If the Freshmen win from St. Anselm it will be a good indication for the crucial battle next Saturday at New Haven. Captain R. G. Fletcher '35 has shown up well this year and he, if anyone can be counted on to pull the team through on top this afternoon, R. C. Boys '35, at center, has played both a good defensive and offensive game and can be expected to hold own in that position today...
...violating a treaty? Apparently Mr. Stimson adopted the letter-to-a-Senator method because it would serve his purpose of warning Japan and yet spare her the necessity of making any diplomatic reply. Aware of the enormous national strength and sentiment behind him, the Secretary may have preferred to "pull" his first punch in the hope that no more would be necessary...
...chairman of the C. R. 0. First to refuse publicly was the Manhattan tabloid Daily News whose publisher, Joseph Medill Patterson, is of the great family that publishes the potent Chicago Tribune. His editorial retort to his Chicago rival: "Col. Knox and his committee have now undertaken to pull what is best described as a fast one on the newspapers of the nation. . . . We understand that some papers are consenting to give their advertising space away in this fashion. This newspaper is not. . . . We don't think much of the anti-hoarding drive, anyway. It is too vague...
Copper-nickel alloys, said Dr. Paul Dyer Merica of International Nickel Co., are now prepared by heat treatment to stand a pull of 175,000 Ib. per sq. in., a tensile trength comparable to that of heat-treated steel...