Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite belief that "some of the roads must go through the wringer." How banks and insurance companies, who are heavily interested in rail securities, will like that is also easily predictable. To ICC Chairman Walter M. W. Splawn was attributed a proposal for a special railroad court to push through the reorganization of the 38 Class 1 U. S. railroads now apparently sidetracked forever in the courts. Finally someone asked Franklin Roosevelt when he was going to hold his railroad conference. This week, said the President...
...great hopes for the game's future. "It's not the best competitive game; there are too many a player can crowd and push without actually breaking rules," he admits. But he hopes that this situation will be improved with the use of competent referees in future intercollegiate matches...
...second row of the scrum, known as the "muscle-men of rugby," Butch Fisher, the "light from Law School," is filling one of the berths at lock, a position he held on the Varsity team two years ago. Fisher, a 200-pounder, gives plenty of push, and it would take a good man to get through or around him. Cabot Briggs, who has played at Oxford, is the other lock at present, with Bill Coleman, a center on the Varsity squad last fall, and 190-pound Dick Nason offering plenty of competition...
Struck retaliated with a push-up and the Crimson steadily increased their margin. During the last half, Dartmouth repeatedly missed golden opportunities after breaking through the Fesler defense which invariably gained possession of the ball off the back-board...
Difference of opinion marked the speeches by Frits Morstein Marx, assistant professor of Government, and Gottfried Haberler, associate professor of Economics at the Foreign Policy Association's meeting at the Hotel Copley Plaza Saturday on the possibilities of Germany's push to the East...