Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven never should have been, Ten thousand Babbitts must live in Stamford. When the eastern sky is saffron, and the west is a slate blue, New York yawns, Banana vendors in Second Avenue push their carts through streets littered with humanity's debris, as Park Avenue tumbles into scented beds. Tugs hoot in the harbor, trains leave, planes arrive, the subway roars and the never ending round feverishly swings toward the stupid frenzied pitch of noon...
...this local push to France's race for transatlantic traffic, President Lebrun was grateful. Last week, stately as King...
Only the National Government's huge following enabled Chancellor Chamberlain to push his measure through the House of Commons. Meanwhile, however, the New York fiscal community began to call Mr. Chamberlain not generous but Machiavellian...
...world knows about the Boston Athenaeum; few know that non-members are not only allowed, but invited, to push open its massive doors at 10 1-2 Beacon street. It would be a distinct breach to ask to see the famous collection of "scruple" books in which the members dip at will; and you mustn't even cast a longing eye at the Vanity Fairs laid out in the magaxine reading room. The Athenaeum, however, is a place no explorer should miss, even if the glimpse is a brief one, for the Athenaeum is the distilled quintessence of Bostonlanism. Hours...
...with a Sperry automatic pilot and a directional radio. Through fog, heavy clouds and snow, Pilot Post, robot & radio cut a superbly accurate course to Berlin in the phenomenal time of 25 hr. 45 min. The slowness of mechanics at Tempelhof Airdrome enraged him. "Damn it, I want to push on," he fumed, and paced the field impatiently for two hours while mechanics turned the cranks of slow fuel-pumps. Off again, Winnie Mae got to the Russian border, was driven by thunderstorms back to Koenigsberg, East Prussia, where Pilot Post grudgingly took five hours sleep, vowing not to shut...