Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...countless delighted students to the scene. Brought to the public eye by the fire was the fact that the University Hall warning signal is the only fire alarm box in the Yard. A few minutes' delay occurred when the Navy sentry who first reached the call box failed to pull the alarm lever...
...year unbroken string of victories; will seat only two men, Scho Andrews at five and Jimmy Ducey at cox, from last year's first boat, but Bolles and Bert Haines have worked out a good crew from the men available. Captain Dave Noyes, Frank Snyder, and Dudley Lamson pull two, three, and four respectively and saw action on last year's J. V. boat...
...they can be used as new-day Stukas. The Army's newest dive-bomber, announced fortnight ago, is North American's A36, a modification of the famed Mustang fighter. With Mustang speed (about 400 m.p.h.) and armament, the A36 also has diving brakes and bomb racks, can pull out of a bombing attack to meet enemy fighters on equal or superior terms...
President Inönü emerged as the master of Turkey with Saracoglu as his principal deputy. Tough, shrewd, brilliant Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu, whose feigned tantrums pull him through many an unpleasant interview, remained as powerful as ever. The country's only recognized political party had seen to it that Publisher Yunus Nadi, spearhead of Axis propaganda in Turkey, was not re-elected to the Grand National Assembly...
Ducky. In Stony Brook, L. I., Merton Powell swore he saw some ducks pull an arrow out of the middle of a mallard, which then flew off with its friends...