Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little boy had injured his arm by sticking it up the chute of the school's soft drink machine in search of a reluctant bottle. The school authorities ordered the machine removed. That seemed to the students about as sensible as taking away a diving board because somebody had dived into the pool when it was empty. And to deprive kids of Cokes in Orange County, Tex. was like taking milk away from babies...
...sturdy, tough-looking Italian, Nino Bibbia, whose father runs a fruit& -vegetable shop in St. Moritz. Nino lay down on the iron framework of his toboggan, crash helmet in place, and shoved off. His "skeleton" (as Alpine tobogganers call their steel-runnered sleds) slithered dangerously down the famous ice chute, whose turns have sporty names like Scylla, Charybdis and Battledore...
...jump on orders of U.S. Colonel Paul A. Zartman, Goose Bay airbase commandant. Zartman's idea: harnessed to a dogsled (which can also be parachuted), dogs can haul human chutists on difficult Arctic rescue missions. The tests proved that the dogs knew what to do with a grounded chute. Crowed an airman: "Instinctively, the dogs run to the chute...
Walter Coulson, of Lawrence and Lowell House; Frederick Francis Lamont, Jr., of Trenton, New Jersey and Adams House; Stanley Joseph Friedman, of Brooklyn and Adams House; Oliver Wolcott Roosevelt, Jr., of New York City and Adams 'House; Arthur Chute McGill, of Wellesley Hills and Lowell House; and Thomas Roberson Morse, of Boston and Lowell House...
...falling when they awakened one day last week. The day was almost mild (29°), the sky was a conservative shade of grey and the wind breathed as apologetically as a Japanese diplomat. The snowflakes themselves descended in a silent and orderly manner, like letters dropping down a mail chute in a good trust company. It was mid-afternoon before the average citizen began to notice how heavily the smothering snow was falling (it averaged 1.8 inches per hour...