Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joint today; the fabric of its society threatens to give at the seams. It is a strange time of year--this exam period, when for once the students work while the Faculty plays. Along the Charles the windows light up quickly as darkness comes, and hands reach up to pull the shades, then fall back to turning the pages. Blue books are every day laid in neat little piles, A--M and N--Z, as if on a sacrificial altar. Alarm clocks jangle so early that they scare the mice back into their holes. Extra chairs are brought into...
...Jackson Day dinner, the traditional opening gun of the Presidential campaign, Franklin Roosevelt wanted this warning sounded to the dissenters in his Party. But since last autumn he has pledged himself to political appeasement, to all-round non-partisan harmony. He could not himself pull the lanyard of the opening gun. To him he called his favorite captain: Attorney General-Designate Robert Houghwout Jackson, the man Franklin Roosevelt thinks will some day be a great liberal U. S. President...
Young Hickory came through with a walloper. He cited Mr. Roosevelt's election figures, pounded home their point: since the Democrats cannot hope to cut into the Republican regular vote, they had better nominate a leader who can pull to the polls the people who voted for the New Deal...
Another brilliant match in the 128 pound class saw Ted Schoenberg pull his match out of the fire by pinning his man with his favorite three-quarter Nelson after about five minutes of wrestling. It happened so fast his opponent barely knew what happened. Captain Bill Daughaday and Dick Thomas were both decidedly predominant in their matches, particularly the former, but neither of them were able to catch their cautions opponents off guard and take them any more than by decisions...
...room for honest disagreement between them and the History I staff, which has issued statements to the effect that "canned" answers were easy to detect. At any rate, there will be a lot of people going to tutoring schools this mid-years, and quite a few of them will pull through. Even so, they're playing a dangerous game of hide-and-seck where all the best hiding places are known only to the professor...