Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus whether we look at the forest or at the trees, adult education looks highly desirable and highly workable. Columbia's example should allay the qualms of the skeptics who don't like experiments. Harvard needs only a little urging and a final push to do for Massachusetts what Columbia has done for New York...
...their program, but they need not state it in detail, and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin saw no reason to divulge anything to the Empire last week. It was already known that the main business of His Majesty's Government, following their victory in the general election, is to push British Rearmament, and this the King's Speech announced as "urgently necessary...
...here is Willy! And he's a fine looking man. But there he goes again pushing that toy car up and down the long corridor. He pushed it all day yesterday; he'll push it all day today. He calls his toy "Packward". It's his constant...
...find anything better" department. It's average fare, of the sort turned out by Warner Brothers every four or five months. With the unfortunate death of Will Rogers, the frores Warner were left with only Shirley Temple as a number one asset. They have been trying to push Kay Francis into this class for two years, but a star is made by the public, net by a producer...
...Workers' President Lewis had inserted in the convention record a catalog of accusations against the shortcomings of Green & Co.'s administration. No Federation action, said Miner Lewis, had been taken on 46 Congressional bills urged at the previous annual meeting. A. F. of L. had failed to push for equality of wages for women, had ignored 24 studies and investigations ordered by the delegates in 1934. Last week the record of last month's convention was available at A. F. of L.'s headquarters in Washington. Those who turned to the record were astonished...