Word: pressed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intercollegiate football contests owe a good part of their present position to the notice which the press and radio have brought them, there is no doubt that the singularly different development of minor sports has been possible only through the salutary neglect which has left them to struggle along on their own feet...
Then while the Vagabond was waiting to start on the royal road to romance for his glorious adventure, the nation's watchful press jumped on the job. Reporters from one of the great American journals got word of the matter. And it did not take long for these mighty and powerful servants of the public to find a nefarious British plot back of the entire excursion--subsidiary of the undergraduate press...
...criticism of Ernest Hemingway's best-selling novel, "A Farewell to Arms", reviews the progress this modern writer has made since his last novel. "The Sun Also Rises". Professor Charles Ball Grandgent's book of essays "The New Word", recently published by the University Press is among the books reviewed...
...Government took a "flyer" in camels, only to have their plans for using the beasts for transportation spoiled by the completion of the transcontinental railroad, is the story told by "Uncle Sam's Camels", a book by L. B. Lesley, which comes out in November from the Harvard University Press...
...time of going to press last evening the CRIMSON had received the following election returns--Richard M. Russell '14 was elected mayor of Cambridge by 4,000 votes over the present mayor. Edward W. Quinn Jimmy Walker was re-elected mayor of New York by a lead of over 300,000 votes. Jim Curley was leading his nearest rival for the office of mayor of Boston by 18,000 votes...