Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...credit, but it cannot tell individuals and corporations what they can do with their capital. Thus Mr. Simmons on loans to brokers, and soundly thus, in so far as there is undeniably a real difference between loans from banks and loans from corporations. But whether it is legitimate to push that difference so far as to label a bank loan Credit and a corporation loan Capital is a point upon which many a banker would gag, sputter...
...snowballed him on the street he prosecuted relentlessly, and he could not be appeased until a considerable fine was imposed; but he paid the fine himself. Many a bold push was made to ascertain his age; yet, however suddenly the question came, or however craftily one crept from date to date, there was a uniform lack of success. "I see Allibone's Dictionary says you were born in 1805," a gentleman remarked. "Some statements have been nearer, and some have been farther from the truth...
...absolute Government monopoly is the "B.B.C." (British Broadcasting Corporation), so absolute, in fact, that it haughtily refused to announce the names of "popular pieces" played by London orchestras, on the ground that unscrupulous conductors have sometimes taken money to push new compositions...
...sitting); 553 handshakes on his last day in office; two last button-pressings (one was supposed to wreck with a blast of dynamite the last standing vestige of old Fort Sackville at Vincennes, Ind. The blast was a dud, so the building had to be burnt. The other button-push opened a new bridge across San Francisco Bay); a signed bill appropriating $48,000 for a presidential weekend retreat;* his achievements, chief of which he mentioned to newsgatherers as follows: 1) "Minding own business"; 2) Prosperity and tax reductions; 3) The Kellogg Peace Treaty ;† 4) Improved Mexican relations...
...comparison which President Lowel makes between prohibition and reconstruction has some validity but it will not do to push it too far. The two movements are alike in that both followed a great war and that they resulted in certain amendments to the constitution. There is also a fact of resemblance in that there was a certain element of moral fervor in both. The small element of moral fervor in both. The small element of moral fervor in the reconstruction policy of the North following the Civil War was overwhelmed by the constitution of the storm of hatred engendered...