Word: bock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This bock stuff is pretty good," interjected his friend, wiping the foam from his lips...
...Springy night-breeze, wafted in from Boylston Street, blew over the open pickle jar beside the cash register and made Vag's nostrils dilate voluptuously with the smell of dill. "Ah, Bock," he smiled ecstatically, unaffected by his friend's matter-of-fact terseness. "Harbinger of Spring. Once a year the brewers clean out the dregs from their barrels and market this heady, brown nectar. Why, it's better than Jake Wirth's dark, and you can save the subway trip." He held his glass up and examined its rich molasses-like color in the light. The strains of Stravinsky...
...game's speed and cost: they are golf-ball size but made like baseballs-tightly wound cotton thread covered with leather. They shoot around the cell-like court so fast that experts judge the ball's speed not only by the eye but by the "bock" sound it makes hitting the wall. Racquets, thin-shafted and fragile, are also costly. The late Charles Williams, regarded as one of the greatest of all racquets players, once broke 26 of them in five sets-about $200 worth...
Three of the principal suggestion that will appear on the group's agenda are the Student Council recommendation for a Student Activities Center, a new Medical Center as proposed by Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, and a Music and Arts Center advocated by Joseph Hudnut, Professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Design...
Answering recent queries as to what the Hygiene Department would do in the case of an epidemic of the pandemic influenza, by far the most dangerous of the varieties, Professor Bock stated that "we have nothing to offer against it, since there is no medication that is known to prevent the disease...