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Word: pushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year with more grain than they can store. Five weeks of dry, 40-to-50-m.p.h. winds have damaged at least 25% of the winter wheat crop west of Dodge City, Kans. But the winter wheat belt east of there still expects a better-than-average crop, which would push the totals over storage limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Hawkins can butterfly the 100 in 59.6, or at least he did at the NCAA's last year. But if he can't push himself to that speed or better this weekend, he'll be pushed out of competition. Bob Clemens of Illinois, Bob Van Heyde and Bon Ledger of Ohio State, and Mike Delaney from the U. of Michigan can all shade...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Varsity Swimmers to Enter NCAA Championships Today | 3/26/1954 | See Source »

...Spain's National Orchestra, Argenta composed a second declaration. He was distressed. He apologized. He humbly affirmed that he was a musician and no writer. Perhaps, he explained, this accounted for the fact that he wrote something he really did not mean. His only aim had been to push and incite Spain's composers towards better production. Moreover, he had always been a convinced Falangist who "owes his personal peace, the peace of his family and the peace of his country to Franco and the Falangist movement." Concluded Argenta: "Far be it from me to dare criticize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Comradely Criticism | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...farm surpluses, even in the form of gifts, is a tough job, despite the fact that many of the world's people are on the brink of starvation. At home and abroad, farmers and merchants are quick to protest cut-rate sales or giveaway programs that push down local prices. Accordingly, the surpluses have to be distributed outside normal trade channels.-In the U.S. the Agriculture Department expects to give away $170 million worth of surplus food this year to state welfare agencies and school-lunch programs. Now Washington is discussing plans to provide free food for similar programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Thorn of Plenty | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...this year's Yardling squad is no push-over, despite what Yale may find...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Undefeated Swimmers to Face Yale | 3/13/1954 | See Source »

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