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Word: pulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...same household. Various publications address themselves to specialists: one speaks to the physicist, another to his wife (who can't do long division), another to their son who is absorbed in music, another to their neighbor whose consuming interest is politics. But all these individuals have to pull their weight in the same civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: $ 1.48 and the Woman at the Well | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Varsity match, the Crimson took three decisions, in the 130, the 165, and unlimited classes. Buddy King, facing the Yale captain at 136, escaped in the last period to pull a 3 to 2 upset win for Harvard; while three classes up, Don Louria alternately scored nearfalls and reversals to pile up the largest margin of the day, a 13 to 5 decision over Bill Julion. Captain Pete Fuller took the only other bout for the Varsity, an unexpectedly close 3 to 1 decision over heavyweight Tom Thomas of Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Flatten Wrestlers, 17-9; Freshmen Score 14-12 Win | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...survey reveals that the average business and non-technical students can pull down a $200 to $235 monthly pay-check as soon as he gets his diploma, while before the war he would have had to settle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Jobs Waiting for '48, Survey Shows; Graduates Can Start at $200 | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

...inches high. Parisian office workers were flocking to eat their lunches in sun-warmed parks, and tulip shoots stood two inches up from the rich, black loam of the Tuileries gardens. Along the Seine the first clochards (hoboes) of the season had taken their places to watch the tugboats pull rows of laden barges upstream and to wonder again why anybody should be fool enough to work in such weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Winter Proud | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...This is the third day of the rush," she groaned, rolling with a block thrown by a hasty customer. "I hope I pull through tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Stampede for Billet-Doux | 2/14/1948 | See Source »

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