Word: rut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guest, who has worked for 27 years on the Detroit Free Press, explained that there is nevertheless constant danger that a man may get into a rut in newspaper work, and cited his own experience as an example. "After I had been on a reporter's job for 15 years I found myself up against a brick wall, for I was getting nowhere," he declared. "That was why I began writing verse and why I am now enjoying what I have to do because it is creative. Although journalism affords the best training in the world for the man just...
...wider point of view than that usual in the mere "professional instructors". In full accord with the principles upon which the Harvard track system is based, Mr. Martin is "just the man to continue Mr. Bingham's good work and keep Harvard from slipping back into the old rut under a professional type of coach...
...more than two seasons old in the whole American theatre. "Scandal," "Clarence," "The Passion Flower," "The Hottentot" --to name four of their five plays thus far--have all been so chosen. Resurrecting "Mamma's Affair," spying out "The Big Game," choosing the pieces aforesaid, the St. James escapes the rut of the sure and the standardized, adds to the current interest of the Bostonian stage...
...conditions which give them no hand in the administration of college activities. As it seems conclusively shown, however, that the more active members of the classes never fail to find time to vote, and, being human, invariably vote for their friends, the sole method of getting out of the rut into which college polls have fallen is to continue the present more or less compulsory participation in the elections...
...habit of losing. In his long experience as a coach, notably with North Dakota, Washington, and Navy squads, he has been such a consistent winner that it was with great expectations that Cornell authorities welcomed him this year to put the team out of last season's rut. With a rather light, and chiefly green squad, Dobie will have to more than live up to past records if his team is to measure up will in the big game with Penn shortly after Thanksgiving...