Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the soggy Greenwich Country Club links augured well for future intercollegiate tournaments. In the qualifying rounds, stocky, easygoing, Charles Davis of Lawrenceville took the medal with a creditable 36-hole total of 153. In the match play that followed, the gallery was treated to many a pull-devil-pull-baker struggle before long-swatting Bill Goldthorp of Peddie ousted Hill School's redheaded, hot-putting Mortimer Reed, 5 & 4 in the final...
...Whoa, Mr. President," cried the Detroit News, sensing in Franklin Roosevelt's nonbelligerent intervention a pull toward war. Hundreds of letters approved (8-to-1) the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's, bitter declaration that the President, unless checked, would take the U. S. over the brink...
...fortnightly passenger service to Down Under, to start late this summer, Pan Am will pull one of its B-314s off the Atlantic run, reinforce its hull for Pacific operation. The American Clipper will make the run in four and a half days (steamship time: 17 days), may well be filled with westbound mail formerly shipped eastward over British Overseas Airways via Karachi and Singapore, to Britain's Australasian colonies. With six new B-314s on order, Pan Am can step up service on the New Zealand run next year when new Clippers are to be delivered...
...rigorous schedule. Material is only surface deep in several spots, but a grid campaign free of costly injuries is long overdue for Dick Harlow and his aides. If the tackles can hold out against the terrific power which is certain to be generated directly at them, Dick Harlow may pull a big surprise and herd his Johnnies right back into the thick of the Big Three scrap...
...expenses for her show, acts the leading role too, which drops her below Irna; Elaine Sterne Carrington (Pepper Young's Family), who collects an estimated $2,500 a week; Jane Cruisinberry (The Story of Mary Marling and Jane West (The O'Neills), who pull up fourth with about $1,250 a week each. Although she makes more than her three associates, Irna lives as modestly as a mouse in a two-and-a-half-room apartment in Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel...