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Word: crutching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person with a bad compound fracture can usually walk on the iron, with a crutch, about ten days after his accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nails, Stirrups, Plaster | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...nonslip crutch with three legs instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Jul. 29, 1940 | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...yard buying move by cotton textile users fearful of a war famine and the possibility that Congress would raise the level of parity payments, up cotton's price. The battered grain markets, which had taken the worst beating during the panic, cast aside their month-old minimum price crutch, limped up a penny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Crossed Signals Flying | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Having thus outlawed commercial tutoring, the Faculty is faced with increased responsibility in regard to the efficiency of its teaching. All the faults of badly organized courses and poor instruction] which the Crimson held were cloaked behind the tutoring schools are now laid bare. The crutch of cramming knocked from under it, undergraduate teaching must stand on its own feet. For students genuinely in need of assistance the Bureau of Supervision stands ready, and it must be perfectly efficient. With its old cancer thus cut out by a final surgical stroke the College can concentrate on the endless struggle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCIPLINARY ACTION | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

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