Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrians cheered louder when their President, Wilhelm Miklas, stepped into a plane to be flown about by Capt. F. K. Cannon. Pilot Cannon essayed no stunts; landed his passenger gently, as befits a prospective buyer.* Doolittle's Circus, having shown their wares at Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, will push on to Prague, Berlin...
...asked in every category. Lumping her gains together it appears that while she set out to get 70% of the U. S. naval strength in battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines, she actually got 71.3%. Therefore the lion-hearted Prime Minister ignored all protests, bloody or otherwise, prepared to push ratification of the Treaty...
...warm day early last month. Correspondent Smythe had not accompanied his four comrades and eleven porters of the advance party on the morning's push to move camp one ice ledge higher. He was typewriting in his tent when: "... I heard the thunderous roar of an unusually large avalanche. Going outside I was horrified to see an enormous portion of the ice wall . . . breaking away and sweeping down the snow slopes below, on which was the climbing party...
...This is done so extensively as to tax the capacity of the house, and so make dancing even more like the preliminaries of wrestling than either fashion or comfort dictates. It also happens that when those who desire to enter unbidden are ardent males without escort they at times push in window sashes, glass and all, or break outer doors from their imitation handwrought hinges...
...push cart on Orchard Street, in Manhattan's lowest East Side last week there was, for-sale-cheap, a Harvard Alumni Directory...