Word: rut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first among the well-greaved theatrical Achaians? Who hotly pressed forward first to commence the ardent one-act struggle for the bays? Who, but the Little Theatre of Bridgeport in The Rut, a drama by Sara Sherman Pryor? From the rising of the curtain upon that production on Monday to the falling of it upon the last scene of The Monkey's Paw, by W. W. Jacobs, produced by the Montclair Players of Montclair on Friday, how the gallant conflict raged...
...occupations requiring intelligence, settle down to methods of working, and more important, habits of thinking no less mechanical than turning a screw every ten seconds. Clerks, at first fresh and alert, who allow their jobs to become mere routine with no spark of inquiry enlivening a high-sided rut; preachers and educators who discard their youthful enthusiasm and experimentation for dogma; engineers who reject commonsense in favor of half understood formulae; doctors who rely on the heroic remedies of former ages--such men may do no personal evil, but their influence in preventing progress, their reaction against change...
After a test flight in a Curtiss single-seater pursuit airplane at Mineola, Brigadier General William Mitchell, Assistant Chief of Air Service, met with an accident on landing which might have had serious consequences. The landing gear or undercarriage of the plane struck a rut and broke; the machine did not overturn, however, and the General, with the promptness of a cavalryman, released his safety belt and jumped out, escaping with a severe shaking...
...personality when it was in the formative stage. Shelley's classmates did their best to force his queerness into the average path, but fortunately for posterity, his will was he stronger and they were unsuccessful. The normal while often more desirable than the abnormal is not always the best rut to travel. Smothering the individual, making him subject to the caprices of the majority, is the trend hazing takes; the "queer", but possibly the best traits of a boy in the stages of development may be twisted into perversion or cut from his nature altogether through his possible reactions...
...look upon the selection of a field of concentration. It the field first chosen prove unsuited, it appears a matter comparatively simple to change to another division, for the rules on that point are not very strict. But in later life it is harder to "get out of a rut", and the experience gained is very seldom worth the time spent. The man who has "tried his hand at everything" is generally to be found among the "aristocracy of the road...