Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seppalla, resting one knee on his sled and using his right leg to push with, drove his team along the white miles. His little Siberian dogs plunged hopelessly in their harness, jerking against leather, grooving the deep drifts with their bellies. Remembering again the drifting ice across Norton Bay, Leonard Seppalla cracked his whip and called the curious signal to go ahead which made his leader duck and scuttle, guessing the trail with his feet...
...afternoon two child's nurses push perambulators upon the scene. "Three-fawty-six. Yeah. This heah's the place." Fascinated they stand, gibbering, comparing the scene with a tabloid's composograph of the murder...
...Sloan's prediction was apparently based on three items: 1) Ford production, which did not get into full swing until the early autumn of 1928, may reach a much higher total in 1929; 2) Chevrolet, now a six-cylinder car, plans a greater push rather than a letdown in 1929; 3) Chrysler looms as a potent rival of General Motors...
Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the late hunter-President, arrived last week in Rangoon, sojourned with Governor Sir Charles Innes of Burma, prepared to push on into the jungle, there to hunt big game and gather strange specimens...
...Oscar S. Straus, 70, widow of the late Secretary of Commerce & Labor under Roosevelt, friend of the late Hunter Carl E. Akeley, will sail on Jan. 19 for Africa, push up the river Nile, into the Livingstone Mountains, in quest of birds, beasts and vegetation for the American Museum of Natural History. No gun-toter, she will use the camera...