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Word: pushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours every afternoon for two months if that operation makes a place for one in collegiate football history. A pommelled ear aches the less when it hears the tribute of a cheer, and the pain of a twisted knee is forgotten if that knee helped to push the ball over the enemy's goal line. But what of the second team the black jersies, for whom there is endless drubbing and few cheers, plenty of pains and only a thin official notice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEROES UNCROWNED | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

...Once push the hesitating male upon the platform, and he will probably admit the advantages in this debating. Nothing could more surely force him to abandon his unadorned logic for a freer, more appealing style. His opponents will use logic, but of an entirely different kind adapted to winning an audience. He will have to pay regard to the antagonism which his usual trip-hammer, hard hitting methods will surely raise in minds which are persuaded not coerced. Such training is the next logical step in humanizing college debating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUMANIZING DEBATING | 11/9/1923 | See Source »

...author's graceful sly humor and intense humanity. He is smiling all the time--a very kindly smile. And yet that same smile that prevents him from sermonizing prevents him equally well from annihilating. He is cool and he is pleasant. Too cool and too pleasant to push his arguments to their farthest limits. His smile of understanding never changes into the frown of annoyance, with the result that the reader is at times disappointed in not seeing the adversary completely disposed of. It would be interesting if Professor Perry should ever draw upon the stock of reserve force that...

Author: By Burke BOYCE G, | Title: KINDLY, HUMAN VOLUME OF ESSAYS | 10/26/1923 | See Source »

...feature of yesterday's scrimmage came late in the afternoon, when the scrubs, holding the University team at bay on the one and a half yard line, gave the regulars a five yard set back after they had been given an extra down to push the ball over, Coach Fisher's men succeeded in scoring but one touchdown and one field goal in the scrimmage, which lasted over an hour. The second team showed fight all afternoon, playing particularly well on the defensive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND TEAM HOLDS OFF REGULARS ON GOAL LINE | 10/10/1923 | See Source »

...Hoover is understood to be much exercised over the prospects of America's foreign trade. Markets in this country have been so good during the last few months that manufacturers are neglecting to "push" their wares abroad. The result is that America is dropping out of foreign markets and may have much difficulty in regaining her footing when a trade slump arrives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Mr. Hoover's Dictionary | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

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