Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elephant tennis players trimmed Lowell 6 to 3, but it is too late for Eliot to push Kirkland out of first place, since the Deacons have an almost clean record. Lowell still remains, in first place in the golf standings, but by a much slimmer margin then before the Bell boys tasted defeat yesterday...
...chairman of the House Labor Committee, amiable Mary ("Aunt Mary") Norton has had a difficult and busy year. She inherited her job when Massachusetts' able young Bill Connery died a year ago. With it, she inherited the thankless chore of trying to push a stiff Wages-&-Hours Bill past an unsympathetic Rules Committee and then through a recalcitrant House. Mary Norton did the best she could. This was to get a majority (218) of House members to sign a petition discharging the committee and bringing the bill to the floor last December, where Aunt Mary's colleagues upset...
...seating of five men in the Presidential chair and now hankers to fill the position himself. The Plan, criticized by a good many Cubans as an attempt to regiment all phases of their national life, is regarded by Boss Batista as too much of a controversial issue to push at the time of an election...
...with all due allowance for the social phenomena which condition Harvard and have helped to push the Classics into the virtual limbo in which they now stagnate, all is not right with the department here. A definite charge that they have neglected to make their subject appealing to students must be made against the men who now control its policy. Musty research, benign scholasticism and dull philology are not fulfilling obligations to their subject or to students who might benefit from a more vigorous and timely presentation. That a broader cultural and literary approach might be used is merely...
SHANGHAI--Chinese and Japanese military dispatches today both reported that Japan's long-awaited "Big Push" has begun on Generalissimo Chiang KaiShek's fortified Lun-Hai railway line, defending his provisional capital in Hankow. The Japanese had captured a dozen towns and appeared this time to have thrown enough men and equipment into the series of battles raging at points on a great semicircular front around Suchow-Fu to make the Chinese positions around that key city almost untenable...