Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Butler was graduated by Columbia. He went off to Europe to study in Paris and Berlin, armed with letters to four of the world's most potent men: Pope Leo XIII, William Gladstone, Otto von Bismarck, John Henry Cardinal Newman. They gave his international, political, social notions a tremendous push. To them, he recalls, he was just a brash young American ? "a speck of dust." But Butler talked right up to them, made them the nucleus of his enormous collection of friendships, to which, as he grew older, he has added almost every person of national or international importance...
This year he is promoting, without much prospect of success, legislation to push the fleet quickly up to full treaty strength (estimated cost...
Chief significance of the 1932 program is that Russia, which has had her shoulder at the wheel for three years, must push even harder this year. The heavy industries of coal, metal, transportation, machine building, backbone of the Five-Year Plan, must meet the country's needs. Russia's "industrial giants"?Dnieprostroy (dam), Magnetogorsk (steel city in remote Ural foothills ) etc.?must be pushed to completion. Then the tired Russian shoulder will get a rest, heavy Russian feet may be better shod...
...Eunice is already suspected of a liaison with another member of the party, her sacrifice seems little more than justice to her fellows. Now Eunice realizes that the drum call has been a summons to her destiny. She goes over to the redskin camp to meet it. The pioneers push off toward Oregon to meet theirs...
...world, and young Steve Hamas, who was on the Pennsylvania State football team the night Loughran was knocked out by Jack Sharkey, climbed into the ring at Madison Square Garden where Loughran was beaten last month by King Levinsky (see below). Loughran, the favorite, came out cautiously, trying to push Hamas away with the left jab which was once the fast est punch possessed by any U. S. heavy weight. Hamas, unskilled but savage, won the first round by ignoring Loughran's left jab and punishing his body. His first punch in the second round, on Loughran...