Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshman sophomores feuds are as old as the college itself. In what is some times termed the Golden Age, the classes fought over a keg of rum. Then a huge 10 foot push ball was purchased, but too many men got crushed in the melee. After that, the football rush was instituted. The two classes lined up at opposite ends of a field. Five footballs were placed in the middle. At a signal, each class tried to get footballs over the other goal line. It the freshmen managed to beat their bloody way through the sophomores three times, they were...
...announce that mankind has arrived at a dead end, or at least a stop light. In the October issue of Harper's, a new warning voice rolls out, announcing that civilization's "400-year boom" is over because civilized nations have no more geographical frontiers to push back. The voice comes, oddly enough, from Texas. It belongs to Professor Walter Prescott Webb, a thoughtful student of history...
...Quebec's old stone Citadel, the Boston Post's Grace Davidson managed to push her way into a reception for Princess Elizabeth and ended up shaking hands with her. This was enough to give Reporter Davidson a Post "exclusive" on how "I was presented to the Princess Elizabeth today." But most of the other British, Canadian and U.S. reporters covering Elizabeth and Philip's tour last week had no such luck. Many of the reporters might just as well have stayed home, for all the stories they...
After nine months of argument, the new tax bill was finally agreed upon last week by House & Senate conferees. Congress is expected to push it through. The major provisions...
...prospects brightened once again, two things appeared certain. One was that the U.S. has no intention of settling on the 38th parallel, but will insist on the present battle line, though willing to give & take a little. The other is that if the Reds reject peace, and U.N. forces push forward in a full-scale offensive, there is only one safe place they could stop: the Pyongyang-Wonsan line across the narrow waist of North Korea. At that place, there would be no doubt...