Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weary, rumpled Board Chairman William H. Davis faced newsmen in the littered Mediation Board room which conferees had just vacated and announced the news. The Board had accepted Lewis' challenge to pull out 53,000 miners and cripple the nation's steel production...
...favored Brown Freshman soccer team will attempt to pull its standing up to five wins and one loss this morning at 12 o'clock by stopping Polly Guyda's Yardling eleven on Soldiers Field. The Harvard Freshmen now have a record of four victories, one split, and three defeats...
Duhig is amazed at the number of outsiders who think Harvard men will work for sweatshop wages just because they're students. "One fellow wanted an engineer-drafts-man with car, to design horse trailers, pull them around the country, and do odd carpentry too. All for $18 a week." Many companies call up for trained graduate scientists, offering under $20, when undergraduates are getting $25 doing the same thing...
...last flames died away. Later Captain Bates explained the strange casualty that had ended a period of two years and nine months of fatality-free operation by Northwest. On the way down the ship had picked up ice. It did not appear dangerously heavy, but he could not pull the DC-3 out of its glide...
Branded by many practitioners allover the country as attempting to create a ruling class of "super-dentists," too proud to fill or pull a tooth, the new school is trying out many new innovations on the nine students who make up its first-year class...