Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years ago practically no one in the U.S. talked of forming a federal union of any kind with any nation. To spread the idea of a Union of Democracies, our Federal Union organization had to begin at scratch then and pull itself up by its shoestrings. Its resources have been trifling compared to the funds spent in that period promoting popular get-peace-quick-and-easy schemes such as isolationism, short-of-warism...
Today B. U. takes to the field a decided underdog and will have to pull a real fast one to upset the Crimson. Last Saturday the Varsity walloped the Terriers on their home ground, 15-7, and gives every indication of being able to repeat that performance...
...into the Bay. The Pacific Fleet, based on Pearl Harbor, but continuously fanning out toward Japan's home waters, is always a brake on the Japanese Navy. If the U.S. Fleet tightened the brake a little, with a feint toward Jap waters, the Japanese may have had to pull their warships from the Bay of Bengal in a hurry...
...picture which the Crimson paints inevitably emphasizes the negative aspects of pacifism. However, although they balk at ditch-jumping, the C.O.'s at Harvard are willing to pull their load in the search for better understanding among the peoples of this country and the world. Members of the Association are engaged actively in such work as the Council on Post-war Problems, settlement-house work, social work-projects of various sorts, Volunteer Civil Defense Work, etc., etc. We feel we owe a debt of gratitude to the Crimson for its service in helping to remove the misunderstanding which makes...
...port never did get any important British Lend-Lease shipments to handle. Russian Lend-Lease cargoes were loaded at Boston only for a brief space. Complaining of labor conditions, mismanagement, congestion in the railroad yards, the Russians announced in a huff last January that they were going to pull out. Tall, handsome Richard Parkhurst, chairman of the Boston Port Authority, made mighty efforts, even won important concessions from the longshoremen, carried his pleas to Washington-to no avail. Russian officials took their business to other harbors, began complaining there just as loudly...