Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first return was a sliced backhand to Vines's baseline. Vines netted. On the next point, Crawford blocked the serve. Vines drove to the back hand corner and Crawford lobbed so skilfully that, trapped as he ran in, Vines could barely get back in time to push the ball weakly into the net. At 0-30, Vines served one fault and Crawford, forcing the rally on his second ball, passed him at the net. Vines was astounded. He shambled back to the baseline, served once more, netted Crawford's return to end the match...
...been the most important and attractive issue at Rollins since the beginning of Hamilton Holt's presidency, and since 1925, under his guidance and sane interpretation of the word, the college has known its only strides forward. But there are always found in groups, erratic leaders who push a good thing too far, and by that I'm referring to Professor John Andrew Rice, who taught liberalism knowing no bounds and disregarding all laws of convention. And so he managed to form his group of followers, "Riceites" as they were called...
When all had gone, the old man went over to the washstand. In his hand flashed a cheap little butcher knife. The men outside the door heard him groan. Bursting in, they could see his face in the mirror, contorted with pain. He was still trying to push the knife through his ribs...
Resigned. Dr. Oskar von Miller, 78; as director of Munich's Deutsche Museum, world's greatest natural and technical science museum, which he founded. (Visitors push buttons, pull levers, see the machines work. A Munich law requires every child over 10 to visit the museum once a year...
...retired from railroading. Born in San Francisco eight years after the gold rush, initiated in transportation by loading gold on a stage coach of which his father was freight agent. Mr. Storey-six feet tall, broad-shouldered, mustached and amply goateed-was no "high-powered" executive, never had a push button on his desk. When he went to Manhattan directors' meetings, his directors (among them such men as Myron Charles Taylor of U. S. Steel and Charles Steele of J. P. Morgan) did not enter the board room until he led the way, always greeted him with...