Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...crowd of about 25,000 to 30,000 is expected for the game. The Princeton and Harvard Jayvees will pull up the curtain on the weekend's sports-this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock...
Three full cadet teams will arrive in Boston tonight with a workout scheduled in the stadium tomorrow. West Pointers, 1000 strong, will pull into the Huntington Avenue station Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, ride the subway out, and then make their traditional marching entrance into the Yard...
Willkie's voice was vigorous but tired. The audience had gone ready to scream, shout, laugh, cry, cheer, boo, wave their little U. S. flags. But the Candidate wouldn't pull out the stops, hurried on to his next sentence even as applause broke out, slurred his words so that their sense was sometimes lost. Once again the speech, with its simple, strong points read better than it sounded...
...first existed. Labor is therefore the superior of capital, and deserves much higher consideration." But he also quoted Lincoln's answer to Karl Marx: "Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. . . . Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own will be safe when built...
...gentle art of letter writing. The trouble with the scheme was that the four men most vitally concerned with peace had to be sounded out first. Remains got an O.K. from Daladier, De Man scooted off to London to get Chamberlain's blessing. Abetz was to pull it off with Hitler. Either Abetz or Hitler let the Men of Good Will down...