Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although unable to exert the extra push required in winning games the Freshman football team is growing stronger and stronger in each appearance. Despite a record to date of four successive defeats and not a single victory, Coach Neil Stahley is far from discouraged about his 1941 gridders. As long as the eleven continues to improve in fundamentals, Stahley will be content...
Throwing paper airplanes at a "push-over" game is childish and bad sportmanship, and one of the worst phases of "Harvard indifference," but the throwing of hard objects from behind, so that identification of the thrower is impossible, is in addition no less than cowardice, especially when no discrimination is made against ladies. Besides the wadded and rolled magazines, beer cans were thrown, and one girl was struck in the ankle with a bottle, to say nothing of the numerous jolting slaps in the backs of heads. And coming in the face of the misfortunes of the team the undergraduates...
...part of a campaign to push Larry Kelley sales over the top, the original of the cover of the current Saturday Evening Post has been placed in the window of Brines on Massachusetts Avenue...
Thus with a vigorous push Franklin Roosevelt undertook to turn the scales of public opinion, scales that for weeks had maintained a queazy balance between moral indignation at ruthless international aggression in Spain and China and a feeling that the U. S. must not soil the spirit of peace by taking even a moral stand. To add weight to the push, he quoted from James Hilton's Lost Horizon a grim passage describing what the world may have in store...
Farewell Again (London Film) expertly applies the Grand Hotel idea to a British troopship. The 23rd Royal Lancers, homeward bound on H. M. S. Somersetshire after five years in India, are informed by wireless that they are to have but six hours ashore in Southampton, must then push off again for patrol duty in the Near East (''Sorry men, but if we're going to own an empire, we've got to pay for it"). Well-managed cameras bustle about sketching, vignetting, peering into lives affected poignantly, happily, comically, by this upsetting circumstance, bring each little...