Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey, puttery Charles Edgar Duryea, acknowledged father of the U.S. automobile, sum up his career a few years back. On April 19, 1892 he first scooted his pace-setting gasoline buggy along leafy Taylor Street in Springfield, Mass, to give the four-billion-dollar automobile industry its first real push. His contraption was pretty primitive. It grew out of a love for horses ("Think of it. We have no tails to dock, no checkreins, no whips, no blinders, no sore backs") and at one stage in the gasoline buggy's development he even considered building a buggy with...
...left field stands for the one and only hundred thousand dollar home run in baseball history. The other day reporters asked him when he would name substitute O'Dea as starting catcher, since he himself had two sprained fingers on his throwing hand. He replied that he would push in the teeth of the writer who said O'Dea would play today. O'Dea may have to catch this afternoon, but Gabby Hartnett, active or inactive, has roused the cheers of the baseball world for the "Southern" side of the 1938 World Series...
Thus Coach Dick had ample excuse to push his Varsity, or rather what was left of them, for center Tim Russell, tackle Tom Healey, and blocker Chief Boston were beset with Ancient Author exams until signal drill, and right guard Dave Glueck had to be held from scrimmage, since he is still suffering from Bruin pounding...
Catching Curley at the psychological moment when he was writing the speech which he delivered to the Democratic State Convention Saturday afternoon, the Cambridge quintet attempted to persuade the Democratic gubernatorial candidate to take a specific New Deal platform and push it through the Convention...
...like Dr. Bock's newly announced experiment in "normal" analysis, the handful of men studying in these fledgling learning outlets have the responsibility of pioneers. The frontier, a difficult and uncharted one in both cases, is theirs to push back. Years hence the work they do now will become only too evident. But for the present, the important fact is that the work has been commenced. The idealistic aspiration of the two founders have for the first time taken concrete form. It will, however, be the newspapers of the future and the public officials of the future who will either...