Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven Harvard Liberals and two Radcliffe New Dealers take the subway this morning for James M. Curley's headquarters at 333 Washington Street, Boston, where they will attempt to persuade him to take a specific New Deal platform and push it through the Democratic State Convention which meets this afternoon...
Looking further, Torby Macdonald and Cliff Wilson are a cinch at wingback and blocking back respectively. Chief Boston, out of spring, practice due to an appendectomy, cannot possibly push Wilson out yet, at any rate. At tailback Austie Harding holds a windward berth on Frank Foley, one of the heroes of last year's Yale clash, mainly due to the fact that a minor injury has kept Foley out of scrimmage for a week...
...later be offered a sudden and staggering proposed "Solution"- whether or not it be now accepted. Repeatedly correspondents have described Herr Hitler as bringing on the Czechoslovak crisis: primarily to break up the Russo-Czech-French alliance; secondly to get control of the Sudeten Mountains which have barred his "Push-to-the-East"; and only lastly because of the joy it would give all Germans to feel that their "Sudeten brothers" have been rescued from the euphemism of "Czech oppression...
...final promotion went to Bill Coleman, a center last year who has been shifted to guard, who appears to have a good chance to push Dave Clueck, the only guard with experience, out of the top position flanking Russell's right. At left guard Nick Mellon, a light but capable Senior, won his "red-shirt" at the opening of the practice sessions...
Ever since 1929 Frank Hawks had been aviation's best pal and severest critic. Then he was flying for Texaco, and every push he gave aviation meant bigger gas and oil sales. Flying coast-to-coast and point-to-point faster than men had traveled such distances before, he used to crow: "That's the way the airlines could fly this route if they'd take that outside plumbing off their ships." Recent years have seen most of Frank Hawks's speed records fall to Howard Hughes, but they have also seen the "outside plumbing" disappear...