Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...palmiest days before the war. The people have determined to resurrect their country with such an energy that it drives them to labor ten to fourteen hours a day. Moreover, the Germany policy is to large degree unchanged. The war has taught her one great lesson to push toward her goal with less boasting and more common-sense. At the same time the fires of anarchy all over the world are bursting into flames and disturbances are rising into chaos...
...twice Thornton attempted a field goal, but the ball fell short both times. For the University A. Horween played a terrific, driving game, while Church made some clever end runs which more than once took the pigskin within striking distance of the goal, and enabled Horween or Nelson to push it across...
...were made "during a year's service as camion driver with the French army . . . and on special duty with the 'Stars and Stripes', the official A. E. F. newspaper,," in which many of them found their first publication. "Most of them were drawn at odd moments during the French push of 1917 near Malmaison, at loading parks and along the roadside while on truck convoy, and while on special permission to draw and paint with the French army . . . The rest were drawn on American fronts from the Argonne to Belgium...
...reaching problems confront the Government in the form of labor questions. But in the near future we are likely to see the formation by Congress of a special Department of Aeronautics. A bill to that effect is before the Senate now. The new department will initiate the first upward push of our tardy development...
...warning is written very large. Let not those who would push on their own ideas engage further in breeding distrust of nations or of the great leaders of a just cause who have served humanity if ever it has been served. The next time a revolver sounds or a bomb explodes the excuse that no such result was expected may not be accepted. New York Tribune...