Word: pullings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workout was light today in comparison with these earlier in the week, for on Tuesday the eight had the longest pull of the season, on Wednesday boat the Jayvees by three lengths, the Freshman by four, in a time trial, over the Henley distance...
Where California's Coastal Range marches down to the sea at the Golden Gate, one of the most spectacular cities in the U. S. sits upon immense hills. But though these pup mountains give San Francisco many a gorgeous view, they long retarded her development. Horses cannot pull wagons up the steep streets, only the most vigorous people care to walk them, automobiles must go into first gear to get up, into second to get down. The man who cracked this tough civic nut was a wire manufacturer named Andrew S. Hallidie, who in 1873 invented the cable...
...Mussolini, who at latest reports had withdrawn to seclusion on his farm, where it is Il Duce's habit to make grave decisions, would now have to admit that Dictator Stalin's agents are getting together the better Spanish war machine. Mussolini had to decide either to pull out his Italian legions in defeat or hurl in large numbers of Italian regulars. At week's end Il Duce's problem was intensified by signs of rebellion in the Rebel ranks. From sources so many and so diverse that neutral observers like the New York Times, crack...
Reason the force of gravity decreases in low latitudes is that Earth's surface rotates faster near the Equator, generating a stronger centrifugal force which goes farther toward counteracting the gravitational pull. A good javelin throw will go a foot farther in Hongkong than in Finland. The same broad jump will be ⅜ in. longer in Texas than in Massachusetts. "Hammer throwers with Olympic aspirations," writes Dr. Kirkpatrick, "may take satisfaction in the award of the 1940 games to Tokyo rather than to Helsingfors, for a well-thrown hammer will go some 4½ in. farther in Japan than...
...much to propagate the "tidal theory" of the solar system's origin which is probably more widely accepted among astronomers than any other. In this view, some 2,000,000,000 years ago, a wandering star happened to swing close to the sun, from which by its gravitational pull it drew out a long filament of hot matter which subsequently broke up and condensed to form the planets. The energy of motion which enabled the planets to assume orbits of revolution around the sun originated in the sidewise pull of the wandering star on the parent filament...