Word: pullings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memorializing the battlefield of San Jacinto. San Antonio as third largest (232,000) got $440,000 for repairing the Alamo. Austin, the state capital, is relatively small, but has the University of Texas which claimed $300,000. Fort Worth, the fourth city (163,000) had a potent pull in the person of the New Deal's Amon G. Carter and wangled $250,000. Texas' second biggest city, Dallas (260,- 000) ran off with the plum. Not for historical background but because she is Texas' financial capital and offered to put up the most money...
...have the world by the tail with a downhill pull on this thing, Earl, if we work it right . . ." wrote he from Washington. "You should be here to see the jitters that some of the Congressmen are in as a result of the mandates they are receiving from their constituents. It is fun. I am always spoken of as a soft-voiced, mild-mannered old chap. I have not received an unfriendly word from a single man at the Capitol building...
...coming together of all political parties, regardless of past differences, was the only chance of putting this country through its crisis. Today ... I feel that instead of being a source of strength to your Cabinet, I will merely be a drag on it and not in a position to pull my full weight...
...presents a trio of crooks whose female front (Betty Furness) falls in love with a rich man's son (Robert Young) whom they intend to swindle. When the young couple marry they are disinherited, undergo progressive misfortunes until they end up in a Pennsylvania barn. The crooks pull a robbery for which Young goes to jail. Not until the end of the film does the dreamy Runyon touch appear. On Christmas Eve in a manger near Bethlehem, Pa., the amiable criminal, who happens to be an ex-doctor (Raymond Walburn), delivers the young wife of a baby while...
...esophagoscope and bronchoscope is a small electric light by whose illumination the bronchoscopist can see any foreign body or diseased tissue of windpipe, bronchi or gullet. By means of slim, skillfully jointed tools which fit the bore of the metal tube, the bronchoscopist can usually catch hold of and pull out foreign bodies...