Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan was to pull U.S. opera out of the doldrums by getting composers to write operas that are simple and inexpensive to produce, then getting colleges and music schools to produce them. Last year ruddy, twinkling Randall Thompson, 42, was commissioned to compose the first of them. He planned at first to collaborate with Thornton Wilder, but, when that fell through, he turned to his favorite Just So story, found that he could use Kipling's dialogue word for word...
...about 10,000,000 lb. A third of U.S. requirements might be satisfied-in time-if the remaining 500,000 odd suitable acres were successfully planted. This year's crush will produce some 8,000,000 lb., about 5% of what the U.S. needs. For the long pull the Department of Agriculture hopes to develop hardier tung trees (to widen the potential U.S. area for tung plantations) and trees that yield more oil per unit...
Thirty-eight days before activation, the C.O. and his staff arrive at the camp where the division is to be trained. There they get acquainted, lay plans. Six days later the other top officers, along with 72 seasoned noncoms from trained regiments, pull in. More noncoms-1,118 corporals and sergeants-report a day later. Finally the outfit gets its junior officers-439 lieutenants from Officer Candidate Schools and officer pools...
...Pull" and if possible a couple of letters of recommendation go a long way in impressing the Senior Common Room, which decides on admissions, but it is not by any means necessary to have these or be a Groton graduate for entrance...
...brain and scalp, the membranes that cover the brain, some of the nerves of the head and neck are excruciatingly sensitive (see cut). Most headaches, said Dr. Wolff, come from the dilatation of these blood vessels or from some growth or injury, like a brain tumor, that exerts a pull on them...