Word: underfoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never wrote a "masterpiece"-"the sentence was his unit"-but his theory of expression "was that on which Thoreau built, to which Whitman gave extension, and to which Hawthorne and Melville were indebted by being forced to react against its philosophical assumptions." Thoreau had Emerson's Nature solid underfoot to start his life on. In an analysis of Walden's quietly magnificent form, Teacher Matthiessen passes Thoreau on Coleridge's test of "the organic principle" -that form must arise out of the properties of the material-and names him one of the ancestors of modern functionalism...
Host and demonstrator at the Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground was hard, white-haired, tank-wise Colonel John K. Christmas.* The day was cold and raw; the red Maryland clay was muddy underfoot. Colonel Christmas said that he would let the model speak for itself. Then he turned toward the tank, sulking 400 yards away on a slight rise, and waved his right arm. There was dead quiet for perhaps ten seconds. Then M3 turned loose a horizontal stream of red death, directed towards a silhouette target 900 yards away. From the muzzles of four .30-caliber machine guns spurted bright...
...plans underfoot go through, it is altogether possible that the Yale crew race at New London will be held a week earlier than usual this year, so that squad members may meet military obligations...
...light of all this, observers said France appears to be in the greatest danger since Germany trampled it underfoot...