Word: scrubbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...janitors and scrub-ladies of the educational world last week cleaned floors and windows, dusted desks in high, stale-smelling rooms. Keen was the anticipation of many a college-town merchant. For soon the student army began to appear-some in new, curious, heterogeneous clothing, consciously striving to seem at ease; others older, bigger, surer. To pop-eyed newcomers, college presidents and school heads droned speeches about "intellectual curiosity." "the academic heritage," "The Future." It was the beginning of another School Year...
...University one yard stripe and after three thrusts at the first team wall, Weymer finally went over. The seconds now took the ball on the first's five yard mark but could not gain. It was here that Potter standing on his own goal line, intercepted a scrub pass and sprinted the length of the field only to be called back...
Checking their line thrusts with well-executed lateral and forward passes, the University players downed the Knox-coached scrubs by a 27 to 0 score. Although the first string players started slowly and showed ragged form, they soon got under way. The initial score followed a fifty yard parade down the field. A lateral from Putnam to Mays netted 20 yards. Charles Devens crashed through a weak spot in the left side of the scrub line for 15 more: yards and Putnam advanced the pig skin five. With beautiful interference mowing down potential tacklers. Mays dashed 15 yards...
...dull trifle was used as an excuse for bored and wintry sarcasms. It repeated, stupidly, the theatrical cliche of the wife who wanted her husband to love her and whose trite appetites were gratified through the complicating assistance of her husband's friend. Alan Mowbray, of Theatre Guild scrub casts, wrote it himself, a handicap which his histrionic ability was not sufficient to overcome...
Died. Florence Busch Bull, 58. widow of Dr. William Tillinghast ("Billy") Bull, (famed oldtime Yale dropkicker and scrub-team coach), aunt of the late Editor Briton Haddon of TIME; in New Haven, Conn...