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Harvard's basketball team was a doormat for E. I. L. clubs last year and seems destined for almost the same fate again. The Sophomore crop is far above average in everything but height, but that deficiency is apt to cost them a lot of games...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Crimson Hoopmen Suffer From Lack of Experience and Height | 1/16/1940 | See Source »

...grow bigger Adolf breaks off and munches a piece of the globe labeled Poland. He wanders off. He comes to the house of the March Into, who is having substitute tea with the Mad Flatterer and the Doormat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grabberwoch Came G | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Doormat: "You might as well say that 'Germans believe what they hear' is the same as 'Germans hear what they believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grabberwoch Came G | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Long before the church bells rang, perspiring circulation men dumped at least one of the fat papers free on every Columbus doormat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Papers | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...course of my life," Celine once confessed, "I spent so many years as a bard, a hero, an official, and a doormat in the service of so many thousands of madmen that my memories alone would fill a whole insane asylum." Readers of Journey to the End of the Night, which at 40 turned Celine (real name: Louis Des-touches) from an obscure municipal doctor to the most sensational of contemporary writers, may have thought that savage autobiographical novel was enough to fill a whole insane asylum by itself. But the Journey had left untold the story of Celine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stinking Boyhood | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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