Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Borah-I would, yes. . . . I think the time is past for moratoriums. . . . We have reached the time when if we are going to relieve the economic situation we shall have to cut, instead of push [debt payments] back a year or two and destroy the credit of every nation against whom it stands. . . . I think we are economically affected by the situation in Europe, and I think we shall have to be interested...
...student in answering a question asking for the definition of "Drang nach Osten," declared that it was the cry of the German barbarians to push on to Osten, while another simply explained it as being the mouth of the western-world Nile, so called because of its fertility. Other men answered that "Drang nach Osten" was a title of Charlemagne, the religion of the Huns, and a name applied to the Merovingian Kings because they couldn't even ride a horse, and were worthless...
...which that season brings, especially to the poor and to the helpless young. Most serious of all, however, is that steady aggravation of the plague of unemployment to which we have made reference. The want of so many families and of their children, if not provided for, threatens to push them (which may God avert), to the point of exasperation...
...that the Harvard quarter-back, Dearborn, was able to put it over for a touchdown. The only other chance for a score failed when Corcoran, playing at left half back, succeeded in eluding the Huntington backs, and ran loose for a 45-yard gain, but then was unable to push through for another first down. HARVARD HUNTINGTON McTigue, Lawrence, Fain, l.e. r.e., Connelly Holder, Parker, l.t. r.t., Manning Adams, Ginsberg, l.g. r.g., Gray, Thomassine Domesek, Brown, e. e., Almquist Ulfelder, Brooks, r.g. l.g., Zeitz Herman, Beaumont, r.f. l.t., Whittemore Crocker, Crownshield, McCanon, r.e. l.e., Heockle Dearborn, Gallagher, q.b. q.b., pignore...
...yards to go, the line the ball is resting on, the team in possession of the ball, the score, who made the play and the number of the penalty. The penalties are listed by number in the H. A. A. News of every game. Fast operating relays controlled by push buttons change the numbers, which may be varied in brilliancy to be visible no matter how brilliant...