Word: doormat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest interest are undoubtedly football and rowing, and as during the last five years Harvard has won no football games and only one race at New London, there seems to have arisen a feeling that Harvard has for a long time more or less filled the role of athletic doormat for Yale teams in all forms of sport...
...upon TIME to paint the truth, the whole truth. Now please let me apologize for "raking you over the coals." There are worse magazines than TIME - bunches of them! When I opened my "back mail" upon landing I found half a dozen magazines trying to boptlick up onto my doormat with "premium offers," like so many mongrel puppies...
None of the candidates wiped his feet on the doormat of New Year's Eve, with more gusto than William G. McAdoo. The old jingle made on him four years ago still rings with startling poignancy...