Word: drag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...style is labored and often descends to jargon. A. G. Haas, who reviews 'It Happened at the Inn," seems unable to control a breakaway imagination. In discussing an innocuous, modest film he manages not only to give a short history of French and Russian motion pictures but to drag in such assorted people as Dostoievski, Gogol, Daphne du Maurier, and T. S. Eliot...
...that the dust of war had settled, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum could drag out the priceless Japanese prints it acquired in 1936, and had never displayed. On exhibit last week, the Met's 339 Uki-yoye ("pictures of the floating world") were new proof that no one ever beat the Japanese at printmaking...
WASHINGTON, December 1--The legal battle of the United States vs. John L. Lewis may drag out for most of this week, attorneys indicated today, raising the prospect of large scale industry shutdowns and 1,000,000 unemployed...
When Lilienthal became chairman of the Tennessee Valley Administration in 1941, McKellar began a struggle against the young administrator in an effort to drag the T.V.A. into the realm of Washington and Tennessee political patronage. Last week, as President Truman named Lilienthal to head the civilian board inheriting the atom problem from the Army, McKellar again squeezed a question of international magnitude into a battered Capital top-hat and planned to fight Senate confirmation of the White House appointment...
...cash, at 15. He started out fishing for smelts in a borrowed rowboat, was master of a big salmon boat, a purse seiner, within six years. In bloody battles, Big Nick (6 ft. 2 in., 226 Ibs.) led other purse seiners against the beach seiners (who use horses to drag flat nets up on shore), drove most of them out of the $59-million-a-year Alaska salmon industry...