Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number one boat ability. Since some men can go through the motions beautifully but lack the power to make a shell go, Bolles has to resort to a trial-and-error method to pick his leading crew. "What counts in crew," he says, "Is how far you can push the boat, not how many strokes you can make...
...City's charter and a change to a city manager form of government. in Massachusetts, any city but Boston has the option of choosing "plan E" after Petitions have put it on the ballot. Headed by the League of Women Voters, civic groups across the Charles are trying to push through the legislature a bill that would give Boston the same right. In spite of a defeat last year in the legislature, the President of the League holds high hopes for her bill this year. She points out that before the legal red tape of petition and referendum...
Later in the week the final push will reach the graduate students, especially those in the Law and Business Schools. Direct dormitory solicitation is planned, and will be augmented at the Law Schools by collection desks in Langdell South and Austin Hall...
...Push from Behind. If the pressure keeps falling, the pilot can tell that he is approaching a low-pressure area. Heading towards Europe, he would veer south (as on the map) to pick up a tail wind. Flying west, he would veer north, and get a similar boost. Radioed reports from ships, from shore or from other planes help him figure out the situation. Frequently a properly plotted pressure course, though covering a longer sea distance, saves more, than an hour on a transatlantic flight. It also saves fuel and money-a modern, four-engined airplane costs...
...sales emphasis was on flowers. As usual, Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co., biggest mail-order seed house in the world (1946 gross: $5 million), made the biggest noise. It sent out three million catalogues to push the latest products of its California farm. Items: a yellow-pink snapdragon billed as the "first alldouble snapdragon ever grown from seed" and the "most sensational new flower for 1947"; a pink "alldouble" petunia called the "Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower" ($2 a packet...