Word: rot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been made by a Norwegian inventor from a mixture of 50% sawdust with chalk and chemicals, subjected to heavy pressure. The resulting substance has the same specific gravity as wood, has the hardness of oak, can be planed, sawed, bored, nailed, painted, stained or polished. It is impervious to rot or moisture, will not ignite at ordinary temperatures...
...tedious hour in Harvard 6, Comrade Ratsky called my attention to a part of the bench before him. Here he had smoothed a place with his knife and had inscribed deep, heavily-pencilled lines: "All of you here are but a herd of garbage swilling pigs. You shall rot in your stagnant tracks...
...York papers publish columns of "it is said"s and of interviews from anyone they can reach; strangely enough, it seems difficult to find anything definitely dependable in any of it. Several papers claim that future cooperation between the three colleges will be impossible; another, that it is all rot; one, that alumni will insist on taking control of athletics away from the faculties; a Yale graduate says that faculties are incapable of efficient management anyway--so far as sports are concerned; another paper reports that five Yale alumni urge the reinstatement of the Princeton ineligibles...
...purchase of accessories, bought a gallon of gasoline and started for California. He only had gone the usual twenty miles, however, when the engine stopped. Some, made cynical by similar experiences with scientific restoratives, may hesitate to pursue the rest cure further and so leave Shakspere to rot in the stores...
Commenting on the question of the reduction of wages earlier in the interview, Mr. Gompers declared that "the reduction of wages as a means to the improvement of business is utter rot...