Word: routs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year, in a non-broadcast contest, the Kids roundly trounced five University of Chicago professors. Score: 140-to-275, in favor of the Kids. Smarting from this rout, the professors boned up for a year, recently challenged the Kids again. Score: professors, 110; Kids, 105. The Quiz Kids' alibi: they had stayed up the night before to watch the eclipse of the moon...
...helped rout the railroads, who squawked about granting needed rights-of-way. There were some practical objections to a pipeline, but Ickes went right ahead. His first scheme was a project from Southwestern oilfields to Philadelphia and New York, to cost $70,000,000. The since-defunct SPAB figured that the 430,000 tons of steel required were needed more in ships and tanks...
...stalemate. The stake of the battle would be the continent of Africa, and not only Africa but the United Nations' supply lines to the Near and Far East. A defeat in the Mediterranean could well turn out as disastrous as the loss of China or India, or a rout on the Russian front...
...fighting was done with such medieval weapons, however. As an example, Chwang cited the occasion when as a college military student serving three summer months as a reserve officer in the Supply Corps, he had sat behind a machine gun and helped rout a surprise Japanese attack...
...Huskies are strictly a power club parading a roster of heavy sluggers. Last May Northeastern, with seven players who will participate today, rallied in the ninth inning to rout Mort Waldstein...