Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...track, Hull of Princeton, is expected to push Bob Playfair in the 3000 meter run, while Hogan will be Princeton's bid against Jack Scheu in the 1500. Bliss and Woodward will probably run for the Crimson in the 300, while Carlisle Abell will place...
Rebuking another Democratic sniper at the New Deal, Secretary Ickes also last week canceled four loans totaling $210,000 allotted to Georgia. Governor Eugene Talmadge, who last week blatantly turned his anti-New Deal fire directly on President Roosevelt (see p. 14), had promised to push passage of a bill validating the sale of Georgia Highway Department Certificates to guarantee the loans in question. When the bill was passed Governor Talmadge vetoed it. Commented Secretary Ickes: "I like to do business with a man whose word I can rely on. We don't care for any more underwriting...
...pull out of a 10,000-ft. dive hard enough to push the g (gravity) reading up to nine, and pull me down into my seat with a force equal to nine times my own weight, or 1,350 Ib. . . . I took off and went up to 15,000 ft. and stuck her down to 300 m.p.h. I horsed back on the stick and watched the accelerometer. Up she went, and down into my seat I went. Centrifugal force, like some huge invisible monster, pushed my head down into my shoulders and squashed me into that seat so that...
...Ontario Legislature in Toronto making the Dionne quintuplets "wards of the King" (Minister of Welfare David Croll to be their "special guardian") and appointing two "active guardians," the State to hold the girls' income in trust until they are 18. Cried "Mitch," cracking down: "I am going to push this bill through without dotting an i or crossing...
...itself two major tasks. One was to foster a more co-operative attitude between colleges and secondary schools. The other was to raise the standards of the colleges. By last year the Board felt that it had started both those balls rolling, could safely leave the colleges to push them on. Under the guidance of its British-born President Trevor Arnett, the Board turned to a new job, to the building of a brand new type of general education for the millions of students who have no use for the classical curriculum. The new curriculum would give the student...