Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lower freight rates. From still another quarter the railroad workers are prepared to demand any arrangement to the advantage of the workers-government ownership, if practical. Then there is the public- mutely desirous of the best possible service; the La Follette-Brookhart radical group in Congress-prepared to push attempts for drastic changes...
...Balkan states. I say this with the full realization that I lay myself open to criticism as pro-German. I am not, I am pro-French, and for that reason I am urging this policy of withdrawing French troops from the Ruhr. The American people should push aside all sentimentality, and face the real facts. There is no question about the devastation and sacrifice of France in the war, but France should not be allowed to destroy herself after...
...idea was derived from a custom at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris of carrying the drawings from the draughting tables to the judgment room by means of a small push-cart--a charrette. . . so that when a student is particularly rushed with his work he is said to be working "en charrette". In America this means expending a great effort. In Paris once a year the Ecole gives a large entertainment called the "Fete d'Ecole" the idea of which the University School has enlarged upon with its "Fete Charrette...
...Americans, (Don't hit a man when he's down). He is asking us to interfere with regard to France's demands for reparations, to which she has a perfect right, and which are long overdue. Let us hope that our sporting instinct in this case will not push us to actions which would cause unlimited trouble for ourselves and for other nations in the future. In 1914 our sporting instinct was not strong enough to make us side with a downtrodden nation with which every principle of honor and justice had been violated, and now in 1923 our principles...
...line-up against Yale last Saturday, has not yet been disbanded and may be tested out against University C later in the week. It is generally felt that Coach Brown has developed in this crew a combination of unusual power and ability, one that should be able to push the third crew hard for its place at Philadelphia...