Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line the desperate Finns were battling to delay the swift Russian advance. The Russians had cut off Finland's only outlet to the Arctic Ocean, were holding the northern end of the Arctic Highway, and were again threatening the Finnish supply lines from Sweden by a swift southward thrust on the highway...
...Ulen, like Dick Harlow, is going to have to reply on the efforts of a group of sophomores during the coming aquatic season. Just how capably these men can carry the burden about to be thrust at them in a 13 meet schedule is doubtful for the time being. So far, the second-year group can be judged only by last year's performances, which were made none too striking and by the spirit shown during practice mansions this fall. Time trials have been few. The spirit has been encouraging...
Wrestling milk-cans on cold Minnesota mornings while his college classmates slept snugly, "Fierce" Butler thrust his way painfully on & up, became by the century's turn a crack railroad lawyer in the days when railroads were among the biggest U. S. corporations. To Wall Street, to conservatives, to Catholics he was a big name in 1922, when President Harding appointed him to the highest Court...
Barring the possibility of a soggy field which would give mudder Bill Hutchinson just the chance he is looking for, Coach Blaik has no real blitzkrieg for Stadium spectators tomorrow. He has no single back on whom he can depend to provide the lightning thrust; no one on whom the Green can afford to stake a long afternoon of build-up plays on the chance that he may break loose on THE play and win the game...
...swimming pool, 100 grand pianos, the best football team and the biggest band that money could buy. Fabulous were the parties and the football junkets he threw for L. S. U. students. Long, his L. S. U. president, James Monroe Smith, his hand-picked trustees and his legislators thrust scholarships upon them (last year 1,000 of L. S. U.'s 8,550 students were on the State payroll). Last July, when President Smith was indicted for making free with the University's money (TIME, July 10), this lush era came to an end. Last week outsiders learned...