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Word: mauling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have troubles enough without letting the public gape at the results of my lectures." So complained a Yale English professor the other day as some of his students set out to maul Harvard in a three-hour skirmish on the field of English literature...

Author: By Oregon Emerald, | Title: THE PRESS | 5/24/1928 | See Source »

Having fashioned a maul to viscerate the vicious viper Evolution (TIME, Apr. 6), the state of Tennessee, last week, rolled up it's sleeves for a trial swing. The viper was placed in a convenient viscerating position by one George W. Rappleyea, business man, who complained that one J. T. Scopes, Science teacher in the Rhea High School (Dayton), had "taught Evolution." The charge particularized that Teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alphabetterer | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

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