Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a leg injury, and he will be benched with his captain this Saturday. It is hoped that they will both be able to face the Elis. Macdonald and Struck have been pronounced physically fit, but they were given the day off before starting on the final two weeks push...
...London Naval Treaty expired at the end of last year without ever having been fulfilled by the U. S., the U. S. Navy consisted of 325 fighting ships, 212 of which, including 158 destroyers, were classified as "over age." Now abuilding or appropriated for in the present push to reach the quotas are 87 vessels, including besides the North Carolina and Washington three aircraft carriers, ten cruisers, 55 destroyers and 17 submarines, the keel for one of which, the Swordfish, was laid last week at the Navy's yard in Mare Island, Calif. Only nation to admit to bigger...
...first time in ten weeks all the rival Japanese forces at Shanghai-the land, sea and air forces of the Son of Heaven-buried their mutual jealousies last week and clicked together in the unified "big push" which Japanese spokesmen had been daily heralding for so long that Shanghai correspondents were becoming incredulous. In Tokyo the Ministers of the Army and Navy are not responsible to the Premier but only to the Emperor direct, this peculiar setup often leading to excessive maladjustment between the fighting services. Last week they slugged together to bend back the Chinese line in the country...
Significance. Japan's "big push" was accompanied by the bursting for the first time of stray Japanese shells in such fashion as to kill four British Tommies and wound six more by this week. Tommies had held their fire while General Telfer-Smollet flung himself flat and escaped a round of Japanese machine gun bullets fired at fleeting Chinese, but foreign tempers in Shanghai were so short that even U. S. Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell gave orders that U. S. forces in Shanghai, if attacked, were to fight back...
...person out of every 50 in the U. S. last week bundled up too heavily, paid for a ticket, sat on a hard bench to watch 22 ardent young men in jerseys and leather helmets push an ellipsoidal ball back-&-forth within a 120-yd. space. Some went frantic at the results...