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Word: pushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Middleton Cox, the Democratic nominee of eight years ago, went to the Border to counteract the big Republican push there. At Nashville, Tenn., he flayed the inconsistencies of loud-spoken Senator Borah and read long passages from Borah speeches in the Senate flaying Hoover in 1919. He described the Hon. Mr. Borah as a "political adventurer who, in some fashion or other has been under every political flag that has flown in the breeze from the days of free silver until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Campaigners | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...horse-dars provided the most excitement. When several men were feeling good they would jump on a car and drive in towards Boston. They might push the conductor off the car, or else just take care of him inside. Sometimes they would get off at Central Square and drive back. No, they did not turn, the car around. They just boarded one coming-the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Gate-man Finds College Life More Subdued Than it Was 40 Years Ago--Regrets Passing of Horse-car Horseplay | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

Part also of the Southern push was Secretary Curtis Dwight Wilbur of the Navy. At Newport News, Va., he asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Southern Push | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...stadium. The morning-paper reporters leave, and only the evening-paper men are left. There is still the "lead" of the play-by-play story to be written. Darkness falls rapidly, and lanterns make their appearance along the counter, by whose light the typewrites click, and the pencils push faster and faster, sending to frantic sporting editors trying to catch the third edition the information that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business of Reporting Gridiron Clashes Is As Specialized As Bootlegger's Trade | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...During the intermission there will be a feature act in mule-driving. This weeks drama promises to be one of the best early season wows, leading up to the final bow-wow. You will know the play in over when the whistle blows and the actors drop their work. Push, do not walk, to the nearest exit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAY'S THE THING | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

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