Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...ideas, the department as a whole lacks that unity of purpose which so pre-eminently distinguishes our department of Greek, and by which alone all desirable results can be attained. If this is the true explanation, - if the matter is, that the Latin instructors, blameless individually, do not pull well together, - then the case is, indeed, lamentable. For it is the community at large, and not the professors, who are to decide whether Greek and Latin are to continue in their present prominent positions as studies: it is the public who are to act as judges; and woe to Latin...
...crew has presumably a slight advantage over the others, and is composed of the following men: C. H. W. Foster (bow); Swan (2); Hemenway (3); Hammond (4); Otis (5); Howard (6); Freeland (7); Brandegee (stroke). All these men are identified with the rowing interests of their class, and four pulled in the University Crew last year. In weight they average nearly 170 lbs., and considering the short time that they have rowed together this autumn, they now pull in very good form...
...cool and airy art if she's got no arms? Likely she has no hand too! I consume she has two hooks by way of appendixes on the stumps. Two hooks are no good to make bread with. Still, I suppose, when Isaac brings her home, she can pull taffy for him and his chum without burning her fingers...
...afternoon the river is a scene of indescribable animation; every one seems to be out in some sort of craft or other, and the picturesque costumes of members of the different boat-clubs add much to the effect. The crews pull down to Abingdon or farther; the less energetic row slowly, or paddle down to Iffley only, or perhaps go on through the lock to Sandford, take their shandigaff there, and then turn back; or else, taking a boat above the bridge, they row up to the charming little inn at Godstow, and come back with the stream. The lazier...
...country to another in no less than a year. The ship which I took at Canton brought me first to San Francisco. The people of that city showed me great respect. Whenever they saw me on the street, they crowded around me and shouted "Oh, see the Chinaman; pull his pigtail; knock him down!" - expressions which, my interpreter told me, signified great pleasure of seeing me. Some even actually pulled my long plait of hair, - evidently a very high compliment. For the Americans express good-will by touching one another. When pleased with themselves they rub their own hands; when...