Word: knee-deep
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...urbanely skeptical Santayana holds that it is the only one of his books which has been "inspired." But anyone who has waded knee-deep in the old philosopher's stream of consciousness may feel there is more recapitulation in the new work than revelation...
Within two years, Coach Caldwell lifted the alumni out of their grumps by winning his first Big Three title (over Harvard and Yale), then did it again in 1948 and 1949. This season, Caldwell has had old Tigers purring like cats knee-deep in cream. Scorning the T-formation and using a juggernaut single wing with buck laterals (TIME, Nov. 6), Caldwell guided Princeton to its fourth straight Big Three title, first Ivy League title in 15 years, first undefeated season in the same length of time, and unchallenged ranking among the top teams...
Tucked away in the second-floor recesses of the great, grey Department of Labor in Washington sits a little-known but influential man: Ewan Clague, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is he, knee-deep in charts and statistics, who figures out how high the cost of living has gone. Last week he reported that his sensitive consumer price index (based on 200-odd household commodities) had advanced sharply (.6%) since Sept. 15 to an alltime high ceiling of 174.8%. (The base figure of 100% is based on living costs in 1939.) It would be considerably higher...
...CRIMSON is expected to field a squad knee-deep at every position and starring such gridiron greats as Crazy-legs Wiley, Crazy-legs Maudel, Crazy-legs IIum n' Strum, Crazy Kaplan, and Norman M. Minerfeld...
Disaster. For a while his luck held. He bought up a lease with only eleven days to run, gambled on drilling before its expiration date. It rained night & day for the whole eleven days. McCarthy toiled in knee-deep, liquid mud for days at a stretch, drove his men to exhaustion. But his derrick was up and rigged and his rotary turning in 10½ days. He brought in a big gas producer...