Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water-cell" escape is clear to any observer of normal alertness. The stocks used are made of wooden halves fitting into an iron frame with a flange in it to keep them from slipping through. No man could pull the blocks downward through this frame, but only a slight push upward by a man suspended from it would free the wooden halves of the stocks. The purchase for such a push is provided by two rings on the bars inside the water cell, rings whose innocence is made apparent by using them to lower the cage of bars into...
...right guard dashes forward; receives the ball from the quarterback as he passes him, and plunges into the opening at the right of centre with his head down for all he is worth. Meanwhile the right end, fullback, left halfback, left end and quarterback fall in behind him and push. Thus a wedge of six men is hurled at the opposing line like a flying meat axe. No human frame could withstand the momentum of this onslaught. It can be readily seen that under the old rule of five yards in three downs no ordinary defense methods could keep...
...team captain, Clarence Houser, tossed the discus into first place money and another new record of 151 ft. 3 3/8 in. The discus weighs 41/2 Ib. Houser threw it farther than most men can throw a baseball. With a mighty push he sent the shot floating through the air for another record of within a quarter inch...
Burns, who may now be classed as a regular, leads the Crimson stickmen with an average of .422. Last week he was batting only for .333, but his six hits last week were enough to push his average up to its present mark. Captain Todd follows the Harvard center fielder, and is in turn followed by Zarakov, his rival up to now for the batting crown. The Crimson third sacker also had a good week, pushing his mark up from .307 to its present...
Both Taylor and Gates of Princeton will push Kane to his best in the quarter, and the former has a very good chance to win. The array of Crimson distance stars are expecting to furnish each other the stiffest opposition they will get, if Luttman, who has been out this week, with a bad ankle, is right tomorrow and the track is dry he may push Captain Tibbetts to a new two mile record. Tibbetts has had his eye on this mark for over a year now and with the proper conditions this afternoon he will probably go out after...