Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town observers to carry off titular honors, for the Washington team has a balance more perfect than that of the well-rounded Crimson team. First, George-town will present a two-mile relay team which has shattered the world's indoor and outdoor records. They will be pushed hard by the Boston College team. The Crimson two-mile team should place, if it does not push the leaders...
...Poughkeepsie, N. Y., hold the ceremony of the Daisy Chain. The rotogravure sections of metropolitan papers contain, during that week in June, immense flowery serpents of braided daisies. In hamlets, in far cities, in spacious houses on country roads, friends and relatives of Vassar sophomores seize upon the papers, push eager forefingers along the Daisy Chain, from face to face. If they thus discover the countenance of their friend or relative, they instantly set their heads at an angle, compare some other countenance selected haphazard from the file of flowery faces with that on which their finger rests...
...John Richardson '08, Chairman of the Rowing Committee was the last speaker of the afternoon. He declared himself heartily in accord with the statements Coach Stevens had made, and said that the graduates were getting behind rowing stronger every year. "We've all got to push and push hard", he said. "Graduates are not going to butt in to Harvard rowing. We're all intent on securing cooperation and we're all backing Captain Kelley to the limit." Coach Spuhr, of the 150-pound squad and Dr. Edward Harding '10, crew physician also spoke briefly
...Hebrews-one fat, one skinny-came to fame in 1873 for their mutilations of the English language. Music-hall audiences rippled and rocked when they heard, just before an act came on, the plaintive offstage whisper of the fat one (Weber) to the skinny one (Fields)-"Don't push me, Meyer!" When the pair were at the height of their popularity, 20 years ago. they disagreed, separated. Friends called this a "business suicide." This winter, they have returned to the two-a-day, are playing certain Western towns under the management of Keith's Theatres, Inc. But this...
...present administration would have on American participation in the League of Nations. He said, "I think this election spells nothing either way for the League. Any President of the United States is bound to continue American cooperation along the lines already begun. I look to see the new administration push that co-operation into many new fields...