Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eager was President Hoover to push ahead with Farm Relief, to catch this year's harvest at the crest, that last week, before its membership was completed, he ordered his new Farm Board to assemble in Washington for its initial meeting July 15. Five men had accepted service on this nine-man board: Alexander H. Legge, Chairman; James Clifton Stone, Vice-Chairman; Carl Williams, C. B. Denman, Charles C. Teague. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, the sixth member ex officio, was despatched by the President to the Mid-West, there to search out likely candidates for the other three places...
...bankers, and a director in New Era Motor Car Co., Ruxton builders) is the front-wheel drive, previously used in only a few trucks and racing cars.* Sponsors of the Ruxton maintain that the pull of the front-wheel drive is a more efficient application of power than the push of the conventional rear-wheel drive. More apparent to the layman is the ground-hugging streamline effect of the low structure made possible by the absence of the long drive shaft and rear-end differential. It is this low body which has made possible the elimination of the running-board...
...with a grave appearance of sincerity that he urged the graduates to study carefully the snob in order to discover from him the true rules of success in life. All the old maxims about working and waiting, study and industry, are to be thrown aside in favor of push, impudence, tuft-hunting, insolence and greed. And when challenged later about the soundness of this advice, Professor Rogers declared that he meant every bit of it and had not a word to retract. That would seem to make his circle of sarcasm completely rounded...
...Broadways of the U. S. will be darkened at a concerted moment, and then brightened slowly to a crescendo of light such as they have seen never before. That will be the high moment of the Golden Jubilee. The dimming of the lights will have been signaled by a push-buttom from Inventor Edison seated once more in his old time laboratory, every stone and splinter of which has been moved from Menlo Park, N. J., to Dearborn, Mich...
...base of Pike's Peak, last week, Bill Williams of Rio Hondo, Tex., started to nose-push a peanut. His purpose: To push it to the top. Mr. Williams acquired his nose-pushing habit last year when he lost an election bet on Alfred Emanuel Smith...