Word: doormats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise added up to a 9 to 0 shutout win for the varsity tennis team yesterday against Columbia in New York. Jack Barnaby's Crimson squad had feared the Lions would offer serious opposition, but they soon discovered Columbia was almost devoid of veterans and as such was the doormat of the Ivy League...
...took four months of bureaucratic gear-grinding for the King's instructions to bear fruit. Last week, an official buff-colored envelope flopped on to Alfred's doormat. Inside was a letter signed by Food Minister Strachey's private secretary: "Your letter . . . was referred by the King to the Minister of Food who, by His Majesty's command, has given it careful consideration and has decided that ... an exception to the general rule . . . may be made in your case." Said Alfred: "When my wife and I realized what the King had done, we burst into tears...
...Philadelphia Harvard Club put out the old doormat last weekend, and over 1000 members of the Associated Harvard Clubs shuffled across it to observe the annual meeting and hear a full cycle of speeches starting Friday morning and ending Saturday evening at the annual banquet...
Until last Friday night Penn looked like just another doormat for the powerful Varsity swimmers. Then the Quakers rose up to topple the Green by the same score the Crimson had previously registered, thereby adding another row of wrinkles to the plentifully-furrowed brow of Coach Hal Ulan...
...throttle; 4,794,000 cars and trucks rolled off the lines. It was a gain of 55% over 1946, and 34% above 1939's production. The U.S. production machine also had time to turn out a flood of knick-knacks-from bubble gum and atomic rings to a doormat that automatically scrubs shoes, rings the doorbell and turns on the porch light. The U.S. alone turned out well over 50% of the known industrial production of the world compared with 30% before...