Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...History is not only condensed for text books, it is dehydrated. They can push mathematics and Latin around and pound it in. Not so history. History is real, living and breathing. ... In the average classroom it dies a death of suffocation...
Calling on youth to lead the fight for a unified world, Senator Joseph H. Ball (R., Minn.), one of the authors of the B2112 resolution now in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, asked the assembled students in the Lowell Common Room yesterday afternoon to do all they could to push through his resolution and similar plans...
...important as physical toughening. When possible, convalescents are now housed apart, away from the sickroom atmosphere, allowed to wear uniforms, play games, watch movies and live a normal military life as far as their disabilities will let them. Exercises range from light finger-&-toe work to calisthenics (including push-ups), drill and outdoor fatigue such as gardening...
...This week the Senators will try to push the ditch through, despite Harold Ickes. But then, if the House also changes its mind, the payoff must still come from WPB: only WPB can release the materials to build the canal, the barges, the tugs...
...planes were desperately needed to search out and destroy Nazi submarines now operating in mid-ocean (see p. 30). To Franklin Roosevelt the value of aircraft against submarines was obvious: . Britain's land-based planes had already pushed the U-boats beyond their own range. On the probability that converted carriers-50, 75, 100 of them if necessary-could push them out of the water altogether, the President was willing to gamble. If they worked, the Commander in Chief of the Navy could hold out his hand to Mr. Kaiser. It was their joint idea...