Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scalp the Indians, the Stahlmen must improve their fielding to a great degree over Saturday's showing, when Captain Fred Keyes looked like a croquet wicket around his shortstop position, turning up with three errors. Also, the team will have to pull itself out of its present hitting slump to keep up with the slugging Indians...
...tearing telephone books in two." This is just another example of German boasting based upon bluff. Anyone can tear a telephone book in two if he knows the trick, which is as follows: Crease the book in the center with the thumbs until a triangle is formed. Then pull directly backward...
Such a policy would allow Japan to pull many troops out of China altogether and push them toward the coveted Indies. Ja pan's southward push continued hard on the economic front, with the signing in Tokyo of a trade treaty with French Indo-China. It clearly suggested Japan's idea of a New Order in Asia...
Harvard's Varsity nine will attempt to pull itself out of the hitting and fielding rut it is in, and haul itself from fourth position in the League at the expense of a Princeton team tomorrow at Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock. Another pitching duel, similar to the one fought last week between Bud Waldstein for the Crimson and Dan Carmichael of the Orange and Black, is expected...
...days and nights the troops maneuvered, "fighting" desperately-marching for hours, sleeping in uniform, attacking in realistic attitudes, simulating war up to the very trigger-pull. The defenders discovered the "Nazis' " main attack, concentrated at the strategic point, hemmed in the invaders, and in a vast tank battle drove them back to the sea. Then the weary, wiser troops went to bed, hopeful that the real performance would not differ much from the dress rehearsal...