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Word: pulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meteorites can be ruled out, Mather continued, because the gravitational pull of the earth fashions them into a pencil shape. Also they have an entirely different trajectory from that attributed to the discs, and once inside the atmosphere they invariably collide with the earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discs Aloft Are Just Jets, Mather Thinks | 7/8/1947 | See Source »

...months ago Coward ran into a bright young radioman with a paying plan. Why not transcribe a Coward show, and send it to places where it would pull down handsomer rates than BBC can afford? The notion looked sound: for some months, effervescent, 26-year-old Harry Allen Towers has been cutting transcriptions featuring top British artists. The transcriptions have blank spots for commercials and are distributed to sponsors throughout the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Nothing but Noel | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Economic conferences would start immediately. Moscow, after some-confusion, decided to pull up for a closer look. The Russians complained that they did not know what the Marshall plan meant-or what Bevin and Bidault had been up to-but they agreed to a British-French-Russian exploratory conference in Paris, this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: With Both Hands | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...square meals and two snacks a day.) The best solunar times vary with the longitude as well as the day, so Knight compiles different weekly tables for each of the newspapers. Each calculation involves the interplay of two forces-the sun's and the moon's gravitational pull-on a given spot on the earth's surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Moon Up, Moon Down | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Last week Britons decided that if autos were to pull their weight in the export program, the strait jacket had to go. So, beginning next Jan. 1, there will be a flat annual tax of ?10 ($40) on all new autos, regardless of horsepower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Shift into High | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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