Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Berlin the Graf resumed flight (her 202nd) to Leningrad, thence pushed on toward the island of Novaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land, where philatelists' mail was to be exchanged with the Russian icebreaker Malygin. Unless further unknown land were sighted, Dr. Eckener did not intend to push farther north. There was only the remotest possibility that he would venture to the Pole. More likely was the tentative course east to Northern Land, south to Cape Chelyuskin and back to Archangel via the Siberian Coast. Approximate distance: 6,200 mi. Estimated flying time...
...furnace heats the base of one boiler-cylinder to 900° F. (688° above water's boiling point). The superheated water expands (but cannot change to steam because it is too closely confined) and pushes a piston at the far end of this cylinder. Cold water or air, applied against the piston end of the boiler, cools the confined water sufficiently to make it contract and suck the piston back to its original position. The external cold water or air is shut off, the cooled water in the boiler coils passes into the second cylinder, and newly heated...
Naturally, a paper like the Comet is practically barren of reputable advertising despite the hiring of mercenary or publicity-hungry clergymen to write daily editorials. But on the theory that a million circulation-no matter what its class- will force advertisers to buy space, the Comet and its competitors push on, trying to outdo each other in nauseous antics. And that weird battle robs Editor Peters of his bitterest competitor and closest friend-Editor Anthony Wayne of the Lantern. Here Author Gauvreau makes no attempt to obscure the figure of the late Editor Philip Payne of the Mirror, to whom...
...Determined to use all his official personnel to push his plan through quickly, the President had at first suggested that Statesman Stimson broadcast a radio explanation of the moratorium to the country. Statesman Stimson hustled back to his own office, called in aides with facts and figures, wrote out a speech while radio time was secured over two big broadcasting chains Next day, though, President Hoover read in the public prints that France's contrariness was increasing, decided that a Stimson speech might complicate future negotiations. When the Secretary returned with a draft of his address for White House...
Daisy thought Henry did not push himself enough; he was not a good royal mixer. She was always hoping he would be appointed Ambassador to Somewhere or Governor of Something, but somehow he never was. Daisy had troubles of the heart; more than several men were hopelessly in love with her; even the Crown Prince got himself talked about in her connection. At least once she had to write him a letter "full of home truth"; once she got really angry, said that if she were his sovereign she would make him wash his face...