Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present time," declares Dr. Smith, "we can find somewhere on the earth all the conditions in sociology, government, and religion which have been since man began his struggle for existence. The most broadening thing a man can do, and the most helpful in teaching anyone to push ahead on his own evolutionary journey, is to see actually the steps which humans have taken in attaining their present condition...
...second time this year, the University baseball team went into the last half of the ninth inning enjoying a one-run lead Saturday against Dartmouth, only to have the home team push two runs across the plate and snatch the decision. Against Columbia on April 25, a one-run advantage in the final stanza proved insufficient, and on Saturday a double by Bjorkman in the ninth inning with two on bases enabled the Green to win once again...
Conditions. In 1914, it took Macmillan 33 days to cross the great glacier that is Ellesmere Land, between Greenland and Axel Heiberg Land. In airplanes, these laborious 580 miles could be traversed in less than five hours. It took him a week to push out on the floes 150 miles with dog and sledge. The planes now at his disposal will have a daily cruising range of about 1,200 miles...
...more about the strange ways of these education mongers at Dravrah. The most remarkable unanimity exists among the Prophezzors. They all say, "Yes, we are educating men," and each one convinces me for the moment that his own work is the principal cog in the machine. But when I push my question further and ask just what this important process is which they call "education" no two of them agree...
...apparent triviality, the moral argument against it is extremely important, whereas hand-organs and old begging women are the ephemeral and trifling evils of every society. The wiser men pass these young beggars scornfully by, push them meaningly out of the way; or stop sometimes to tell them just what little gamins they are to beg in the street. But there are many who are thoughtless enough to encourage their efforts with an extra coin, for back they come in every growing numbers to plead for what they have no right to expect. Not only is this becoming an extreme...