Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four of the team A men have signed up for the state championship tournament which starts today. P. W. Dixon '25, the University captain, is a favorite for the title and is expected to push C. C. Peabody, the present champion, to the utmost. The Harvard man has not lost a match this year in the tournament just completed, having defeated Howe of the Union Boat Club, 3-1, Bray of Newton Centre, 3-2, Powers of B. A. A., 3-0, Peabody of the Tennis and Racquet Club, 3-1, Wakefield of the Lincoln's Inn Society...
Then the fun begins. Horace is discharged, for practicing his psychology on his department boss; Mr. Actopel has a nervous breakdown as the result; and Gordon is expelled from college for cheating in an examination. The disruption in the house supplies the necessary push to Ruth. Still languid and emotionally listless, she goes off to White Sulphur Springs with Raleigh...
...Fundamentalists cannot push the Liberals out of the Church unless the Moderates are willing to help push. Dr. Stone may be taken as typical of the Moderates. In theology he is conservative, but in practice liberal, because he is too practical to make theology the test of a Christian...
...would-be Americans. The Car-Yard and the gigantic adventure of freight-smoke and bells-the places the dusty freight-cars have been, the things they have seen! The life of a trackwalker on the subway, dodging 200 cannonball flyers a day for tiny wages-the sleights of a push cart man -the sandwichmen, those biting commentators upon our modern scheme of existence-the revivalists-the lovers of Little Italy-the bums-the men in the dark-the men in the storm-the men in the snow. Do you know of the white-draped cradle within the door...
...football games?Syracuse vs. Nebraska, Army vs. Navy, Yale vs. Harvard?I broadcasted the follow-ing sentiment throughout the country through the medium of the Hearst newspapers: 'Hard at work in some office, or factory, on some farm, or in some department store are young men that later will push a button summoning today's football heroes to their orders...