Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Please pull down the shades on front campus. The boys don't want you staring at them while you dress for the prom...
...with little damage done to shops, drydocks and fuel storage, the Fleet can still function in force, minus only the striking power of ships and aircraft lost to bombs and torpedoes. But if Pearl Harbor is grievously damaged, the Fleet, or large units of it, may be forced to pull back to the Pacific Coast...
...Aluminum weighs one-third as much as steel, but [stainless] steel is more than four times as strong as aluminum in pull and tension. Recent developments in structure mathematics now enable us, even in small planes, to build trusses of thin stainless steel of equal weight to duralumin [an alloy containing 95% aluminum, 4% copper, ½ % manganese and ½ % magnesium while in larger ships there is a greater advantage to the steel construction...
Guest artists of increasing distinction accepted invitations to appear. Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., endeared herself by threatening to pull Joad's beard. The Honorable Harold Nicolson was elected to BBC's Board of Governors a few days after experting on Any Questions? ; the Brains Trust disrespectfully took all the credit...
Paradoxically, United will use the proceeds (about $26,000,000) not for expansion but to pull in its horns. As it was when it set aside a $4,000,000 reserve (TIME, Nov. 17), it is thinking of the day when the war will be over. With a backlog of $500,000,000 and less than $25,000,000 in capital, United is financing its roaring business out of sales. But when those Gov ernment checks stop arriving, it will have to have more capital. There will be conversion and development expenses. And United may want...