Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desperation of the Harvard team, as it tried to shift with the Bates line. The tackles would pull out to meet the shift and the guards would remain stolidly in their accustomed positions. There was just the hole that Mr. Wellman & Co. were looking for. A little push on the part of Stone, the gigantic Bates tackle and the backs were through the line for plenty of ground...
Meantime, to push forward re-employment, the President publicly renewed his faith in Public Works: "To those who say that our expenditures for public works and other means for recovery are a waste that we cannot afford. I answer that no country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources...
...playing at life, of being absorbed more in the petty ripples of campus society, and in some cases campus politics, than in the really significant events which are moving the world at large. But how to stir the American undergraduate body from its tradition of cynical lethargy and push it into the outskirts of the public struggle is a problem to tax the wisdom of a sage. A not entirely hopeless problem, however. Joe College, as we have seen, has passed on, and in his time he, too, must have seemed an irremediable "evil." --The Princetonian...
...matriculate at the University of Michigan. There he waited table, sold books, got his law degree in 1905. The great copper-mining camp at Butte, Mont, appealed to him as a place where a young lawyer without influence might make a living. Arrived there, he was preparing to push on to Portland, Ore. when two sharpers bilked him of his bankroll. He managed to get part of his money back, decided to remain in Butte. A lawyer gave him a job collecting bills and in 1906 he hung out his own shingle. Next year he married Lulu M. White...
...Since 1930 he has been head of the Tokyo Hochi Shimbun ("Intelligence Newspaper"), oldest and one of the most influential Japanese dailies. This book is his autobiography, written in English by his friend, Shunkichi Akimoto. Unusually frank, it reveals a man who seems to represent his people, combining Western push with Eastern fatalism, occidental morals with oriental philosophy...