Word: beer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Italy, schemes were being made to cash in on the first Holy Year since 1933 (TIME, June 6). As far away as Taranto, a businessman planned to make a killing with beer bottles made in the shape of St. Peter's basilica. (Rome's patent office frowned on the idea.) Police clamped down on a photographer's ingenious gadget: a strip of photographs of the Pope making the sign of the cross; when slipped through the hand, the device would give its owner the sensation of personally receiving the Pope's blessing...
Cruel & Unusual. In Detroit, Walter J. Burnett got a divorce after testifying that while he was at work his wife drank all his beer and whisky, replaced the bottles after filling them with colored water...
Hanover police chief Andrew J. Ferguson said he believed there was no malice or premeditation involved, but that Devee was guilty of poor judgment in firing a .23 caliber telescope equipped target rifle at beer cans floating is the Connecticut River...
...Lack of beer once caused Harvard University to close down...
...hour long talk sponsored by the Student Council, the author of "300 Years of Harvard" wove these and other traditional anecdotes into an historical tale in which he divided the history of the University into four periods. The "Beer incident" (improper treatment of students) occurred during the early period. "President Dunster's period" included a fire that the University president fought while clad only in nightshirt...