Word: rut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mormon Church is a business as well as a religion. Reed Smoot busied himself with its finances, pulled them out of a rut, made its beet sugar and woolen enterprises return good profits. His industry, in 1903, was rewarded with an election to the U. S. Senate...
Cocky as always, the little Welsh David chose to speak on St. David's Day, in a hall decked with crisp Welsh jonquils. "Stanley Baldwin reminds me," he chirped, "of a driver who finds his cart stuck in a rut and sits there smoking his pipe, saying 'Leave it to the horse...
...this pact, there will be compulsory religious training in all schools and colleges, in addition to the fact that the appointment and discharge of instructors will be determined by their achievements in the light of the papal standards. In appearance at least, Italy has fallen into the same rut of church domination that still hampers Spanish progress, and which is the cause of much dissension in the southern part of the United States...
...fifty or more years as it would be easy to find. It is work that naturally appeals to the best type of student, for the crying necessity and the results of such work are easily seen by any who will take the trouble to get out of their own rut of life. J. D. Hubbard...
...despite the thousands of dollars Wisconsin had just spent to make it a safe road for a President to travel. An Army truck transporting mail-of-state foundered and tipped over. A light passenger car transporting a heavy, round-shouldered figure out of the dismal wilderness, slithered into a rut, stuck, had to be dragged out by horses...