Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burly, surly-mannered fellows slouched in the corridors of a high school in Cicero, Ill. last week. They rasped commands: "Get along now! No loitering!" They insulted girls, jostled students who infringed upon even the most trivial school regulation. Complained a student: "These dumb house dicks push us around like we're convicts at Joliet...
...against the Hohenzollerns are printed almost daily in German papers of all sorts. But among the monarchists there are indeed grave "disagreements." Most monarchists are content to wait for a sudden, national emergency, such as the death of 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg. They would then push forward "as a stabilizing influence" a Hohenzollern? not as Kaiser but as "German Regent." In Bavaria, where monarchist heads are hottest, the populace already hail 63-year-old Rupprecht of Wittlesbach as "Your Majesty'' and will certainly insist that he be made Regent of BaVaria if a Hohenzollern becomes German Regent. Rupprecht...
...artiste' expressed in every characteristic. His deep, ferret-black eyes look through you in search of what it is that combines to make you appear as you do. His broad understanding smile bespeaks an appreciation of you and God and nature. His long slinky fingers were made to push a brush...
...Invented by one B. J. Augustine, built by Champion Rotary Motors Co. of Buffalo for which Bert Naseef is test pilot, the engine has but 20 moving parts, all enclosed; only 241 parts in all, compared with about 4,000 in the average airplane engine. Eliminated are valves, springs, push rods, timing gears, oil pumps, oil lines, etc., etc. Of the ordinary causes of engine trouble, 87% are said to be eliminated...
...National Economy League deserves the support of the Harvard community that it is endeavoring to reach through the newly announced undergraduate push committee. In fact, the chief obstacle that remains to be overcome is the average student's reluctance to 'sign away his life' in the way of giving his name to the League's feeless membership lists...