Word: drubbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evolution and English. "Imagine my delight," said Shaw when he received an inscribed first edition of Professor Wilson's rather heady treatise. Wilson, before getting down to the origins and philosophy of languages, had rehearsed the old controversy of natural selection v. creative evolution, the better to drub the Darwinians. Full of youthful enthusiasm, 91-year-old Shaw sat down to write a 36-page introduction for a new edition of Professor Wilson's study in which he proves, if nothing else, that he can still write the liveliest prose of any man alive. He takes the reader...
...epics always have. With the CRIMSON on the winning end in 23 years out of every 25, usually by a score of 23 to 2, this year's gang from the Plympton Street Gashouse is expected in the words of John Drebinger, ace New York Times sports reporter, "to drub the squad coached by Robert A. Lampoon, of 23 to 2 fame, by a fairly high score: probably somewhere in the vicinity...
...only other rally at Harvard in the last decade was also held before a Princeton game. It took place two years ago, and the team went on to drub the Tigers 26 to 7 on Soldiers Field the following day. Last fall the heavily favored Tigers were glad to escape with a 9 to 7 win in a well played football game...