Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When you put 300 cans on the mantelpiece that's even worse, but the Winthrop House Polar Bares look upon this achievement with pride as the culminating point in a worthy college career. They argue that it isn't everyone who can drink 300 cans of beer and pile them all on the mantelpiece. The reason they give for collecting such a magnificent stack of tin cans is that when divisionals are over they will be able to celebrate by rolling one down the entry stairs every ten seconds all night...
...natives. . . . As it was rapidly deteriorating and becoming nonusable, the saw mill was sold. . . . The Samoans do not take a great interest in the Department of Agriculture . . . administered by the chief radio electrician. . . . The annual Fono [Islands' native council] recommended that the selling and serving of beer to young men under 18, and all women, be prohibited. . . . Subsequently this was enacted into law. . . . Since beer has been made legal, conditions have improved. . . . The illegal manufacture of 'bush beer' has been completely done away with. . . . Samoans do not carry alcohol as well as ordinary white persons. . . . The Samoans...
Undergraduates were served beer, made in the brewery which stood in the Yard near the present site of Hollis Hall. But only privileged bodies like the Board of Overseers rated the luxury of wine...
...Beer bottles more than 100 years old were the most spectacular of the relies dug out of the basement of Harvard Hall yesterday by John F. Brown of the American Georgian Society. Brown is engaged in reconstructing the Harvard Hall kitchen as it appeared from...
...collier's future, so off went young Richards to enlist in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was younger than the age he gave the recruiting sergeant, but well set-up and handy with his dukes. He soon got the hang of barrack life, and was enjoying his beer and his "bit of skirt" with the best. He took his part in many a pub-brawl, many a dangerous jest. When an ignorant young officer had him "crimed" for a dirty rifle (which was actually clean) and his attempts to establish his innocence only got him into hotter water...