Word: push
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane landed. For five hours the public was kept away as the royal family went over the ship from stem to stern, lunched together in private. Irrepressible Princess Elizabeth loudly demanded to be shown the children's nursery, screamed with excitement when she was allowed to push a button that sent the hoarse boom of the Queen Mary's whistle echoing across Southampton Water...
...motor-driven disk which analyzes the shape of the letter. Then a photo-electric cell converts the light into electric current. The reader places his hand on a wooden box so that it rests against a row of nine small glass beads. The electric current causes tiny rods to push up momentarily through holes in the beads. The position of these rods corresponds to the letter which is being translated. Besides offering an unlimited choice of reading matter, Inventor Ranseen believes that reading by his method is easier to learn than Braille...
...Landon has been an able Governor of Kansas. Honestly provincial, he is devouring stiff economic and social treatises, trying hard to push his mental horizon beyond Kansas plains. Of his capacity to fill the White House chair, his friend William Allen White devoutly declares: "If a man has any latent subconscious powers they are aroused by the overwhelming responsibility. ... I am inclined to believe that Landon would rise to it. I don't know. No man knows. I don't think he knows...
...from the Crimson to blow its own horn but in view of past matches and on glancing through the records of past years, the meet will probably be, in the jargon of the trade, a "push over". The score of last year's encounter, though at the time there were ominous murmurs of "gyp" and "we wuz robbed" arising from the Lampoon contingent, was carefully checked by a firm of Boston accountants and found to be 23-2 in favor of the official undergraduate organ. Dr. Worcester's office later issued an unofficial statement attributing the victory to clean living...
...upward push within the company was interrupted just after the War, when he joined Joseph Stephen Cullinan, Texaco's first robustious president, in another oil venture. Mr. Cullinan had quit the company a few years before in one of those periodic management eruptions which have given Texaco such a peculiarly individualistic tang ever since it was founded in 1902. Mr. Cullinan had called for the usual showdown with the board of directors. A loser, he picked up his hat and walked out, with no hard feelings, to start what he hoped would be another Texaco. When he needed...