Word: pusher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lorenze J. Taylor, 1B, former University of South Carolina glove pusher, pounded out a decision over Paul O. Chatfield '39 for the 125 pound crown. Edward Cochran '38 outslugged Edward P. Richardson '39 in the 135-pound finals...
...pusher propellers mounted behind the big Allison engines lift Airacuda swiftly to more than 30,000 feet, speed it through the skies at an estimated 300 m.p.h. Many of the machine's details are still secret but revealed this week were Airacuda's wing spread, 70 ft. (25 ft. less than the Douglas DC-3), its length 58 ft. and its weight loaded around 15,000 Ibs. From each of the fighting snouts ahead of the engines bristle big 37 millimetre (about 1½ in.) guns (see cut) that throw 1 Ib. high explosive shells two miles. Cartridges...
...skyscraper under construction. Not content with that, Designer-Producer Bel Geddes has put his scene into operation. A giant crane looming up into the flies brings up six or seven big I-beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism are that when the beams (actually wood) strike something they emit a hollow thump instead of a ringing clank, and that when the inevitable victim falls...
...under Stahley there is a little doubt about that, the A team men are kept looking carefully after their laurels, else they wake up one day and find themselves crowding the bench while someone from West Podunk Academy is disporting in their place on the field. One such pusher, is a guard called Cheever, a converted centre, who though weighing but 155 pounds, has scratched his way up from the lower shelves to a B team ranking in a position he had never played before. Were it not for his weight he would surely be in the front rank...
...back to tapering tips on which are mounted vertical rudder fins. The ailerons are so rigged that they also serve as elevators, thus simplifying control. The chunky two-place cabin has windows of a flexible fireproof fibre known as plastacelle. Like the Hammond, it has a Menasco motor and pusher propeller at the rear, a third wheel in front. Because this wheel is hooked up with the rudder, the plane may be steered on the ground like an automobile, a decided advantage when taxiing in a crosswind...