Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look at this idea of freedom. I will permit a baby, which has just learned to reach for an object, to pull out and push in a bureau drawer as often as it wants to in order to develop its sensory experience. But to let your two-year-old child, who doesn't need that type of sensory experience, pull out and push in a bureau drawer just because it wants to, is downright damaging to his growth...
Three kinds of earthquake waves speed through the earth from the epicentre. Fastest are P (Push) waves which travel about 5 mi. per sec. They take a nearly straight path through the earth to the recording station. Then come the S (Shear) waves which make about 3 mi. per sec., follow the same path as the P waves. Last come the L (Long) waves which ripple around Earth's surface at about 2 mi. per sec. The transverse shear waves are the crux of an unsettled controversy about the nature of Earth's core. Some observers affirm they...
...while the Masters are priced at last year's levels, the Standards have been cut $10 on almost all models, putting them as much as $25 below Ford's standard line. In the past year Chevrolet sold about 100,000 of the lower-priced Standards, will push them strongly in 1935 as a good transportation value for those who do not wish to pay extra for the latest gadgets...
...impossible to judge what the Varsity hockey team will do against Princeton tomorrow night in the Arena. The Crimson skaters have shown great potential strength all year and seem to have reached the peak of American college hockey this winter. But they didn't show the final push last year and despite an influx of new players only Ford and Watts exhibit the necessary fight...
...important, but the one which deserves the greatest emphasis is the first. All education that is worthy of the name is self-education, and the youth who has been brought to the point where he is able and willing to take his studies into his own hands and push them forward with the joy of an intellectual explorer, without needing to be prodded by the inexorable requirement of courses and examinations, has received the greatest benefit which Harvard can bestow on him. One learns, however, in talking with tutors, that many students can never be brought to this point...