Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just can't seem to understand why she should train four long years only to receive $200 per mo. (-;$30) and have to tug & pull to eke out a few "thank yous" & "if you pleases," when she can be a hat-check girl, receive $200 a week clear, and be engulfed in a sea of gratitude...
...became the hero of 10? joke books. Ford's own favorite joke was the one about the gravedigger who was asked why he was digging such an enormous hole. "They're going to bury this fellow with his Ford," the gravedigger explained. "He said it had pulled him out of every other hole, it would pull him out of this one." The Tin Lizzie rattled and banged across the country. It had to have roads. Roads were built. It had to have gas. Gas pumps sprouted. It paid taxes. It made jobs. It transformed a nation...
...aspiring Astronomy-major who fancies his prospective field as a sort of idealistic joyride into the realm of fantasy, the best advice is "Pull out now, before it's too late!" Go out into the starry night, like Walt Whitman, and enjoy the beauty of the heavens while the learned astronomers rave on inside; but whatever you do, don't try to become a learned astronomer yourself. Astronomy is one of the meatiest, most practical fields of concentration offered at Harvard...
...while in Oregon but gave that up for Wall Street, where he became a banker, a promoter and a tycoon. In 1920 he moved in on Lee Tire & Rubber Co. In 1933, with Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium, he acquired control of Madison Square Garden. He helped pull Paramount Pictures out of a $100 million hole, along the way picked up Brentano's book stores...
...last year's efforts are to serve as any criterion of what Crimson bank-standers can expect, the Varsity has a harder pull ahead than tugging an II-foot sweep through the water. The lone victory in '46 was sweet, however, as they left a Yale crew far behind on the Charles...