Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graduate Schools were the chief source of strength for the dry element. As at Harvard the graduates went on record in favor of rigorous enforcement, although the beer and light wine proposal found many adherents...
...ballot of the faculty was so incomplete as to be of little significance. The returns show only 37 faculty members voting. These were about evenly divided between the desire for rigorous enforcement and the desire for wines and beer...
...first Medical School in America and the first Law School in the world. Suddenly, we find ourselves participating in--the same old dispute that rages now over Freshman Dormitory Commons. But our Freshmen today have little to complain of beside the stinking meals, the flint-like bread, the sour beer and cider of those days. Pie was introduced, after many riots, and we are told that, such was the durability of this dainty, thrifty students were wont to fasten their share to the bottom of the table with a fork (after forks had been introduced!) against leaner times...
...ballot was worded it militated against the success of the wets by not offering them any proposition on which they could unite their forces. Even the light wine and beer proposition failed to attract a good many wets who had voted for repeal...
Prohibition in Norway always excepted beer and whiskey. And brandy could be bought on a doctor's certificate. During the past year the law was altered to permit importation of light wines under Government monopoly. This alteration was made because of threats by France, Spain and Portugal to render void all trade agreements with Norway. These countries had previously exported vast quantities of wine to Norway...