Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chemists with new theories to push, new information to divulge, hard questions to ask, are expected from all over the world at an "institute" or congress to be held at Pennsylvania State College by the American Chemical Society next July. Last week the Society's president, Dr. George D. Rosengarten of Philadelphia, appointed a committee to arrange and direct the institute's program. Since pure research is now being pursued as vigorously by industry as in academe, it was not surprising to find more industrial employes than college professors on the committee, which included: Dean Gerald L. Wendt...
...farmer's-friend, Congressman Dickinson of Iowa.* Whoever it was, word was passed that the House farm bloc would vote for a coal-crisis bill. Then the farm bloc offered to block the coal-crisis bill if the coal operators' congressmen would get behind their favorite farm bill and push. Closed. Silence shrouded coal while from one end of the capital to the other a fanfare of political trumpets echoed the groans of the suffering farmer...
...throat." If Madame Schumann Heink smokes cigarets and yet remains solidly respectable and virtuous at 65, why then, no woman need conceal her smoking. . . . The American Tobacco Co. makes eight other important brands of cigarets, so that if this advertising arouses prohibitive discrimination against Lucky Strikes, the company can push some of its other makes...
...past and the present do not mingle gracefully. The present is too red-blooded. And so we see a dismal parody of Kipling, a delectable burlesque of Oscar Wilde, and a really amusing, if somewhat overdone, page of history with undergraduate notations, push a bit of Chaucer and a rather dull ballad of a questionable source, from the center of the stage. Now Lampy does not snore so loudly. He knows the present best. But Pity of Pities! The clock ticking backwards leads his mind down into chaotic, confused imaginings. We find Diogenes in a humorous vein. Descartes would...
Toward Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario some U. S. citizens feel a disloyal gratitude, for it was he who led Ontario Wets to victory at the last election (TIME, Dec. 13), and it is from soon-to-be-wringing-wet Ontario that numberless little boats will push off next spring across the Great Lakes with damp cargoes for the Middle West. Therefore when Premier Ferguson made a public pronouncement last week he was well heeded...