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Word: pulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backstroke. Captain Jay Urstadt and Chuck Solberg have the unusual distinction of being co-holders of the Dartmouth pool record in the former event, while Dana Jackson is top man in the latter, a race which has consistently fallen to Crimson opposition this season. If Captain Chuck Hoelzer can pull the breaststroke out of the fire at Hanover, the meet may well go to the visitors...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...erased by these troubles. Last week's anti-American outbursts did not mean that the U.S. was losing the cold war or that many Germans were turning toward Red salvation. One demonstrator was asked by a correspondent whether he thought it would be better for the Americans to pull out of Germany. Said the worker: "For God's sake, don't leave us. Of course we strike to try to get unity and more food. Who wouldn't? But we don't want the Americans to leave. So dof ist keiner [nobody is that cracked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Don't Leave Us | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Whether spontaneous or not, 42 local fire-fighters put out the "blaze" within ten minutes, aided by falling snow, but it took almost an hour before all the engines could pull out of the Eliot drifts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mysterious Blaze Rouses Residents In Eliot, Kirkland | 1/27/1948 | See Source »

...three harassed officials tried in vain to pull the traveler from the luggage rack to which he clung. At last, the carriage was uncoupled and shunted into a tunnel. There, in complete darkness, the adamantine passenger sulked and fumed. Not until the railway officials threatened to shunt his car onto a siding permanently did he finally consent to leave the train and wait for the regular 4:25 to Grantham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Owners | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Rated by the gross take of their films. These figures do not represent the stars' earnings or box-office power, since they make no allowances for the pull of costars, Technicolor, story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harvest-Home | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

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