Word: ruts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aptly illustrating this depraved attitude is the inability of the tutorial staff to synthesize the course-work to the undergraduates in the field of the sciences. Many of the tutors are brilliant men; some are far advanced in their chosen rut; but when the tutor can escape to tutoring from beneath the Danioclean threat of research and then more research, he does not appear to be required or to even feel the need of establishing in his tutee's mind some coordination among the roiling details of the student's incipient techniques...
True, the stockmarket greeted Chief Justice Hughes's pronouncements last fortnight with a skyrocketing rally but prices soon relapsed and trading dropped back into its old rut. Bonds, notably Governments, climbed to new records but as a business shot-in-the-arm the gold clause decision was a notable flop-with one exception. The two biggest U. S. steel companies perked up enough to announce for 1935 big programs of expansion and improvement...
...current "literary renaissance," attracted the favorable attention of William Lyon Phelps and other Eli pundits. After two years abroad Wilder taught for seven years at Lawrenceville, took an M. A. at nearby Princeton. His 1928 Pulitzer-prizewinning The Bridge of San Luis Rey lifted him out of the academic rut. but two years later he returned to it of his own accord, now lectures on English & literature for six months a year at the University of Chicago...
...there were no synonyms in the language. After graduating high from Carleton, Veblen taught for a year in a Norwegian-community school, then went East to study philosophy at Johns Hopkins and Yale, take his Ph. D. He spent the rest of his life looking for a fitting academic rut. For a time he could find no job at all, disgusted his family by loafing at home. Finally he was offered an instructorship at the new Rockefeller-endowed University of Chicago. He also taught at Stanford University, the University of Missouri, Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Except...
...study microscopic snips of her internal organs. Now, however, all that was necessary was a test of her blood and urine on virgin rats and spayed mice. If Clara was a true female, her specimens would contain glandular secretions called hormones which would put the rodents into rut. The test was made; Clara was a boy. Thereupon surgeons started a series of major operations to release the latent seeds of manhood. Last week it was announced that the final touches will take place in October after which Clara will assume the name of Clarence...