Word: rutting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small-town boy who yearns to run away, explore far, exotic places and make his name in the big city. But family and dull duty hold him down to his father's piddling building & loan business. With a sense of deep frustration, he plunges into his small-town rut, half-angrily marries the girl (Donna Reed), battles the villainous local banker (Lionel Barrymore), befriends his fellow men, shoulders the whole town's troubles. When he winds up, despite all his do-gooding, broke and disgraced, he seriously considers throwing his "useless" life into the river...
...High disapproval" was expressed by miss Sally Hamilton, Garland '47. "Sure it's all right for German women. Look at the rut they're in ever there; and they all know that Americans are suckers anyway, she said...
...dictatorship. Returning G.I.'s, foreign correspondents, and Madame Sun Yat Sen question the pledges of Chiang, with tales of concentration camps, gruesome political murders, and widespread governmental corruption. The reports state that instead of the supposed progress in Nationalist controlled areas, China is still wallowing in the same old rut of poverty, famine, and ignorance, under the yoke of a regime unsupported by a great majority of the people. These generally obscured accounts seem to indicate that Chiang is in no sense of the word, a "democrat," but is instead, a totalitarian warlord. By feeding his war machine, the United...
Promising "a social event which will interest CRIMSON readers . . . no end!," the committeemaiden said, "Now that Radcliffe girls attend the same classes, I feel that a lot of Harvard men are getting into a rut with these girls. After all, they should realize that Sargent also has its points...
Fearful of falling into another rut of injuries, the coach withheld all contact work for the afternoon. Pete Petrillo was again in uniform, running through both ground and passing plays, but Emil Drvaric saw little or no action and continues to be listed as a doubtful started...