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Word: rutting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Junior Varsity baseball continued in its usual groove and Freshman baseball continued in its usual rut yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field as the Jayvees tagged Leicester with a 19 to 2 defeat while Dartmouth was taking the Yardlings for a 5 to 3 ride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Nine Scores Again as Indians Defeat Freshmen | 5/5/1948 | See Source »

...Sproul Harvard is "an extraordinary institution because in spite of its great age and prestige it still has young ideas. If Harvard were stuck in a rut it would be a terrible thing for American education. "He continually senses the" enormous stimulation which comes from having a liberal, progressive institution in a position of respect such as yours...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Cal Head Hails GE, GI's, Gridders | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Much of what began as a wild, free upswell of talent, testing new forms and themes, has settled into an orthodox and predictable rut. These spearheaders did add a kind of undisciplined virility to U.S. letters, but most of them now seem to be acquiring literary paunches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Free Wheels in the Groove | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...domination by a small clique of "Tory Rowers,' a few shrewd politicians were able to sterilize a ringing indictment of the present school system. This indictment, in the form of the comprehensive report by eight professors and seven school superintendents, placed the blame for 'Cambridge's thirty-year-old rut" squarely on Superintendent Tobin. It called for his removal and the reorganization of a fumbling, politically dominated administration. Mr. Tobin sputtered magnificently, but could not refute the charges against him. In desperation, be wondered what were the educational qualifications of the men that made the survey. Tobin appealed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mark of Greatness | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...Rut. In Lynn, Mass., 14-year-old Stephen Joseph Connolly, who had fractured his right arm during a Columbus Day football scrimmage last year, engaged in a Columbus Day football scrimmage, again fractured his right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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