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Word: pullings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell, whose opponent today is the weak eleven of Adams, is very likely to pull up into a tie with the Deacons if the expected happens and Winthrop overcomes the Deacons...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Undefeated Winthrop Certain To Take House Championship | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

...magician pulls a white rabbit out of a silk hat, so the Fine Arts Theatre seems to pull consistently entertaining pictures out of thin air. "Mill on the Floss" is undoubtedly one of the funniest pictures of the year. It is all the funnier because it sets out to be a soul-searing tragedy of Sophocletian dimensions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Last week this same Buzz Hoover was packing to pull out of Greeley on a streamliner for a vacation, after the busiest season his Greeley Cash Auction Market has ever had. Sales were running some 60% better than 1938's $1,000,000-plus, and on sales Buzz Hoover collects anywhere from 3% to 7%. Fall and winter business was piling up so that Buzz had to shut down his own auction school, which had 50 aspirants booked at $100 a head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prairie Showman | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Jones of the Globe: "This is Harvard's first crucial game, while Pennsylvania has had two tough ones. The outcome is problematical. It will be a close game all the way, and though Harvard may pull a couple of touchdowns, it's really a toss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five of the Quaker Stars for Today's Game | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...victim Handsome Dan IV. English bulldog mascot of the Yale football team, rallied sharply late last night, and veterinarian Dr. S. Johnes gave the dog an even chance to pull through. Suffering from a serious paralysis of his posterior extremities, Dan was given slight hope in earlier dispatches from New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANDSOME DAN, YALE MASCOT, HAS EVEN CHANCE TO SURVIVE | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

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