Word: push
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother TIME reader and fraternity brother in the seagoing profession is just a "wee bit" dramatic in parts of his statement but I feel he speaks the truth when he says, "Many a young officer who is on the first rung of the ladder to command owes his push upward to the books sent aboard...
...Sweden's dictum that disarmed neutrality is a practical impossibility. Denmark has long been disarmed to the point of danger; according to military experts she would not be able to defend her capital or her boundaries for more than three days. Premier Stauning is now expected to push through a National Defense Act to increase Denmark's army & navy, to buy war materials. Most Danes trust that Britain would never allow Germany to invade Scandinavia but they are taking no chances. And it was with more than passive resistance in mind that Sweden's Foreign Minister lately...
...Board of Overseers with a nebulous sort of advising and criticizing over the various departments. On certain occasions, notably in the case of the Engineering Department a few years ago, this power has proved not so ethereal. For an alert and able Visiting group was able to push through a complete reorganization of a very messy situation...
...cosmic ray particles was not at all like the accepted manner of an electron, which characteristically forms high energy photons, which in turn form more electrons to produce the phenomena known as "electron showers." Due to these showers electrons soon lose their energy, and consequently haven't enough "push" to make much progress through lead. These newly-discovered specks, however, pass through ten centimeters of the metal almost undeviated, with little appreciable loss of energy, and producing no showers...
This week as the war's ninth month slid into the past, the Leftists hastily mobilized peasants and city workers to push the fierce drive few miles to the northwest of Teruel, General Franco's powerful garrison in eastern Spain, 150 miles from Madrid. Again and again the Leftists, backed by war planes, thrust forward in an effort to weaken General Franco's hold in that critical sector lest he succeed in wrecking their communications between Valencia and Barcelona...