Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shook herself out of her cruise pace. On radio and telephone Giles Stedman and U.S. Lines got the Navy to agree to let him drop his 250 passengers at New York, promised to have his beauty back in Newport News by Wednesday of this week. There workmen will pull out her luxury trappings, install three-and four-decker bunks in her cabins, paint her Navy grey, perhaps arm her with 5-in. guns for her new life as a transport. Built to carry 1,200 passengers in the North Atlantic trade, she will be able to carry about...
Glancing at the Caja de Seguro Obrero, as he must have done many a time in the last few critical weeks, Don Tinto could pull his bushy mustache and reflect on the dual perils which have beset his administration from its start. To the left of him was the danger that the Popular Front would disintegrate; to the right, the danger of another Sept. 5. Don Tinto's recent veto of two bills passed by Congress brought both perils upon him last week...
...committee's Beacon Street building was a public show of classroom work done by the children. Notable was the ease with which moppets grasped economic and quasi-economic ideas, illustrated them with graphic charts and pictures. Examples: > An eighth-grade crayon drawing of an automobile, with tabs that pull out to illustrate the various farm products used in manufacturing a car. > Cartoon "movie" strips of manufacturing processes, from raw material to finished goods. > A play, The Loan Shark, demonstrating possibilities of fraud in loan transactions. > Home budgets worked out by seventh-graders. > An eighth-grade soap sculpture...
...Lacey and his sore arm, which has still not recovered from the pull it received against Dartmouth two weeks ago, were to decide the outcome, when in form, Lacey could have won the event with no trouble at all, but his bandaged throwing arm limited him to one toss for the vital second. As his teammates and spectators clustered around expectantly, Lacey took the Javelin without any preparatory throws and tossed it for a meet-winning 184 feet 8 1/2 inches, 7 feet further than Yale's Phil Freeman...
Surely we have been taken in by a hoax. a clever satire. It is unthinkable that Mr. Davis meant his poll-tax letter as a serious argument, rather than as a device to pull the legs of the southern arrogancy clique. We are all of us aware of the ignorance of the poverty-stricken, but it differs very little from the ignorance of the vast majority of those who are able to pay the tax. How can this letter have been more than a wicked, heartless gibe at the poll-taxers. Hucy Long, who Mr. Davis says, is the arch...