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Word: pulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buildings), a receiving apparatus measures the time the waves take to make the round trip. If any return quickly enough to indicate that an obstacle is within 2,000 ft. from the airplane, a bell rings and a bright light flashes in the cockpit. The pilot can then pull into a climb in time to avoid any "terrain" hidden in the overcast (see diagram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Peacetime Job | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Buttressing Buddy (an unprepossessing teddy bear) will be 65 Universal-International color movie shorts, 100,000 record albums, a newspaper cartoon strip drawn by the artists of Superman, Buddy Bear dolls, pull-toys, crayons, paint sets, wallpaper, pajamas, toothbrush holders, cereal bowls, lamps, storybooks-"and countless other items of merchandise . . . under the Buddy Bear name." Some parents suspected that the time might come when the afternoon horror programs would be remembered with wistful regret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Clean & Bouncy | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...couldn't pull off a deal like that in any other country. Americans are uniquely prone to isolate emotion from life, and so cut off it inevitably turns to cheap sentimentality. The treatment of mothers is one indication of the general American attitude toward women; the plight of the wife ("the little woman") is well enough known and horrible. And so far she is Day-loss. As for mothers, their main trouble is usually that they have too much to do in the early years and not enough later on. The plight of the American woman whose children...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mammy! | 5/9/1947 | See Source »

...virtual replay of last Thursday's contest at Chestnut Hill, with the Eagles soaring to an early lead and surviving a late-inning Crimson threat to pull away for their triumph. Dan O'Brien gained his second win over the Varsity, limiting Dolph Samborski's forces to four hits. Brendon Reilly started for Harvard, and lasted until the ninth inning, when Ira Godin subdued B.C., effectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O'Brien Hurls BC to Second Win Over Varsity Nine, 8-4 | 4/30/1947 | See Source »

...With a late start and only a year to pull everything together, the Album situation may look pretty dark. But I am certain that within the next week we shall complete arrangements, giving us reason to be optimistic about a worthwhile album by next June," Green declared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green, Regal Will Head '47 Album Board | 4/29/1947 | See Source »

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