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Word: shoving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With that, Benjamin and his committee started to shove inside. Police pushed them back with their shoulders, ejected them from the Capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sitting of the Seventy-Second | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

When the timing films had been developed and inspected about 4:30 a.m., officials found the flyer playing "shove ha'penny" in the messroom. They told him his average time was 408.8 m. p. h.; his best lap, 415.2 m. p. h. Said Lieut. Stainforth, "I thought I had done it," and turned back to his game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: 415 M. P. H. | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Died. Asa Shove Wing, 81, president since 1906 of Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co.; after a long illness; in his summer home at Sandwich, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 15, 1931 | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...certificate in the 15 years before it matured. Wall Street recovered from its spasm of fear and began to agree with out-of-town businessmen that a billion dollars deflected into retail trade, into new automobiles, new clothes, new necessities might, after all, give Industry a helpful shove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Needy Served First | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...daring soul points out that the student himself may be to blame. At any rate it is the student who suffers when he steps into the outside world, and it is the student who should take it upon himself to look hardest for remedies, even when he has to shove them down his own throat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Good a Copy | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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