Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those of the throng who knew aught of motors and who were able to push near enough to the cars to see, sensed at once that the Show held nothing new (of importance) from an engineering standpoint Certain cars, it is true, had effected minor improvements: additional bearings to the crank shaft (Dodge); rubber cushioning of engines (Buick); adding of a fourth speed (Paige); crankcase ventilation (Oldsmobile). But all of these features have been used before...
...recall movement in Washington is quieting down. Even many friends of Dr. Suzzallo do not wish to push so drastic a measure as the recall against Governor Hartley; they can always wait until the next regular election (1928). Unless Governor Hartley gets into some new and bitter dispute with the legislature which convened last week, he seems likely to serve the remainder of his term...
...leaving his competitors behind with a fleet of some 50 motors ships under his control, the largest in the world. Naturally his speech last week turned to the motor ship; the ship with an engine running by explosions like those in an automobile motor, instead of by the push of expanding steam as in a locomotive...
...Lake Superior, the largest body of fresh water in the world. On the down voyage they haul wheat from Canada (Port Arthur and Fort William) and from the U. S. (Duluth), and iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores. This commerce is immensely valuable and ship owners push their vessels to beyond the limits of the navigation season, which ends the first week in December and begins the middle of April. It is at the end of the season that St. Mary's River becomes a veritable hell for mariners, with ice smashing down the river. Sailors...
...Stephenson,* I knew him. All politicians in Indiana knew Stephenson. . . . I always was afraid to give him my confidence, and never did, because there was something about the man that always warned me not to do it. I was afraid he might push out, because he was, in a way a human dynamo and, at the time of his supremacy, might have controlled 150,000 votes in Indiana by his "ipse dixit...