Word: drag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Mrs. Clark made the descent safely, but Varney collapsed. Three men lashed him to a pair of skis, tried to drag his body down. As they tugged the bogging load through fresh snow, Varney's arms slowly clinched above his head, stark frozen. In the end, almost frozen themselves, the three men abandoned their clubmate, limped to safety...
Jerking the attention of the nation away from a bristling Europe back towards its own capital, President Roosevelt's removal of Arthur E. Morgan as T.V.A. chairman strikes a sour note in the policies of the chief executive. He has raised a delicate legal question that may drag on for months, but whatever the decision, this struggle of personalities is another proof of the peculiar opportunism which the President has always possessed. He is a chess player whose plan consists of a vast desire to win, whose method is to cope with each situation when it comes...
...soon creating difficulties among the bamboo stalks, for it is almost impossible for a sincerely pious Hindu to be firm with the cow, a sacred animal. Finally bamboo cages were built in which the cows were gently confined. Meanwhile whips were cracking over bullocks as these nonsacred males helped drag bamboo and build Congress City...
...task of demolishing a husky, tall section of wall. It is part of the once proud structure opposite Phillips Brooks House, and towering fragment of loose bricks as it is, it stands stark and alone, the very last piece of Hemenway's walls. The boys, about six of them, drag a heavy steel cable across the ruins of the foundations and try to wrap it around the tall, narrow piece of wall. They cannot hitch it on high enough to get effective leverage. The other end of the cable is bent onto the bumper of a heavy dump truck...
...Winthrop House Dance Committee has engaged Bunny Berigan and his orchestra for their annual Winter Formal Dance on Friday, February 18. The prices, according to McCrae H. Cobb '39, Chairman of the Dance Committee, will be $3.50 drag and $2.00 stag. The affair will be strictly formal and will last from 10.00 to 2.30 o'clock. Dinner reservations should be made in advance to secure accommodation, as admission will be limited to 206 couples...