Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their work during the winter. The officials at Washington consider it possible that this proposed school may be sanctioned if enough men, particularly students, signify their intention of joining it. The purpose of Captain Milling's trip to Cambridge is to get men interested in the scheme and thus push the establishment of the training camp...
Although the team showed a marked brace for the final game of the season with Haverford last Saturday and kept the ball in the visitors' territory most of the time, the necessary "push" was lacking and neither side was able to get the winning goal after two extra five-minute periods had been played. The tie score assures Haverford of third place in the league with a per centage of 600, having won three games, lost one and tied one. If the visitors had won they would have been tied for first place with Princeton and Pennsylvania. On the other...
...tending of E. M. Martin '18 enabled the substitutes to shut out the first team. Both E. O. Baker '17 and G. A. Percy '18 had many chances to score, but although their shots, long and short, went straight for the goal, Martin always managed to stop them and push the puck aside...
...when, with the armies of France, the finest troops in the world, the British went over their parapets on the 16-mile Some front. When the winter hardens the water-covered fields of northern France, we will undoubtedly hear some more news from that front, when the 'big push' starts again and restores Belgium and the northern provinces to their rightful owners...
...That was the situation, everything practically ready for the 'big push' which began July 1, when we were given orders to go to Verdun, on June 23. There followed a three-day trip across France, stopping the first night in the outskirts of Paris, traveling through the beautiful and historic Marne valley, camping on the banks of the river the second night and then on to Bar-le-Duc, through town after town in complete ruins as a result of the first onrush of the Germans...