Word: pushed
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They also swelled the growing ranks of honor candidates, helping to push their number over half of the upperclass enrollment for the first time...
...gave George Chase, dean of the University, a chance to push the usually apocalyptic Senior Album preface as far as it would go. "It may indeed be questioned," he wrote, "whether the college will ever return to a schedule of two terms a year and a long summer vacation...
Pentron had been selling for under $2 in December 1965. To get things moving, said the indictment, Andreas' allies "offered and paid compensation" to brokerage house customer's men to push Pentron stock. Two New York defendants were enlisted in the campaign: Paul Heischuber, 27, a former partner in a small brokerage house, and Mario Trombona, 38, a Manhattan public relations man. As if by magic, daily 1966 trading volume in Pentron soared from around 10,000 shares in February to as much as 188,000 in April, while the stock reached a high of $3.75. "During this...
...setting of geraniums, honey locust trees, and a 20-ft. waterfall whose roar all but drowns out the yowl of city traffic. Paley opened his $1,000,000 oasis, last occupied by the Stork Club, with no ceremony other than allowing his mother, Mrs. Samuel Paley, to push the button that started the waterfall. "You should have seen her face," he reported happily...
...hitting led to the team's two losses. The freshmen managed only 2 hits off Dartmouth's Bob Seelbach, losing 2-1, and couldn't push a run across against Springfield, falling 2-0. But after each loss, they came back strong to first pound Northeastern, 11-2, and then romped Yale, 8-6. They closed the season by whipping Exeter...