Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...local boards will assign a serial number to each registrant (thousands will have the same number). Then follows lottery day, when a suitable dignitary (Franklin Roosevelt, for instance) will reach into the same glass bowl from which the first World War I number (258) was drawn in 1917, will pull out one of thousands of jumbled capsules. Each capsule will contain a numbered slip. Registrants holding the drawn numbers will be the first to receive detailed questionnaires, probing into every aspect of jobs, dependents, special qualifications, reasons (if any) for requesting exemption. Other lotteries will follow...
...slaughter. Those with steam up, hastily got under way. Taken from the upper works of a tall ship (probably the Dunkerque) the picture (lower right) shows the 26,500-ton battle cruiser Strasbourg, whose stern is visible beyond the bridge of the Provence (in the foreground), starting to pull out. Beyond her, the sister ship of the Provence, the 22,189-ton battleship Bretagne has already been hit by a salvo. A few moments later (upper left) the Strasbourg has got away, and over the stern of the burning Bretagne is visible the airplane tender Commandant Teste. One shell...
perfection of national-defense structure." The aim which gave the key to his purpose was to hitch Army and Government into a harness in which they would pull together. It was to be a military-dominated structure, as was the Shogunate...
...repair of torn nerves. Every human being has a fixed number of nerve cells at birth, and, unlike other cells, they do not multiply. Torn nerve fibres heal only by sending forth tendrils toward the severed ends. In stitching together jagged nerve ends, surgeon must be careful not to pull the nerve taut, must draw the silk through the petal-thin nerve sheath, not through its body...
...Salem's is a sociable gathering, with the air of a happy rural community. Placed shrewdly at a time in the Georgia farm calendar when it is too early to pick cotton or pull fodder, too late for plowing, the camp meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...