Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Interest. ". . . If we act with comradeship and loyalty to our country and to one another and if we can make state enterprise and free enterprise both serve national interests and pull the national wagon side by side, then there is no need for us to run into that horrible, devastating slump or into that squalid epoch of bickering and confusion which mocked and squandered the hard-won victory which we gained a quarter of a century...
Dick Eckert and Harry Poole, who pull Harvard's basketball strings, managerially speaking, adopt a middle-of-the-road attitude. Eckert sometimes has semi-fanatical tendencies, being a hoopster of no mean proportions himself, and has been known at times to grow irate when his worthies have been blasphemed by local college journals, but Dick is more prone to tend efficiently to his duties, as is Harry. And God help the opposing manager who tries to jockey with the time clock. When the Harvard five went out west this winter, it was Eckert who wrote the stories for local papers...
There is an old and proven basketball axiom that it is hard to look good against a poor team. Sloppy basketball is infectious, and the hackers will invariably pull the better outfit down to their level. Harvard not only descended against the Elis; it stooped lower than...
...pull it out, send it soaring again, WPB this week gave more power to the director of its Aircraft Control Resources Office. T. P. (for Theodore Paul) Wright, crack aeronautical engineer and production man, got full authority over manpower, materials and machine tools for plane production. To the armed services, irked by civilian control over war building, no civilian could have been more acceptable. Ted Wright, onetime director of engineering and vice president of Curtiss-Wright, is an old hand at dealing with them, should be able to sweat more aircraft through WPB's red tape...
...until his second throw in the final round that Fisher was able to pull ahead of the Ithacan star and gain for Harvard a title which it has not held since Murdock Finlayson's heave...