Word: boned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Proprietary medical preparations known as Russell Emulsion and Russell Prepared Green Bone...
...young manhood stood up for masculine principles. A few Yale institutions, such as hurdling the line, the flying tackle and other bone breaking plays, were outlawed. Forward passing was introduced from the girl's game of basketball as a compromise, and the Yale view of college life settled into permanence...
...Yale News will conduct a referendum today upon the 18th Amendment. The ballot offers a three-fold choice to the Yale undergraduates. The extremists may vote for repeal of the amendment; the moderate wets may put themselves on record in favor of light wines and beers; and the bone drys may express their endorsement of rigorous enforcement of the existing law. The result of the balloting will offer an intreesting comparison with the vote if Harvard on the same question last week...
...does not, however, follow in the least that Harvard has voiced the opinion of the country at large. In the first place in the country at large reason is not so likely to rule. And even were it to rule, the country would probably remain bone dry. It is the inhabitants of the vast desert regions who, together with the bootlegger, keep the present Prohibition law unchanged. But if reason did rule throughout the country as at Harvard; most drunkenness, economics loss, fatalities, and bootleggers would be shown the door...
...permit the sale of light wines and beers, with a total vote of 1471 to 1047. It was distinctly a day of victory for the moderates--the out and out wets succeeding in getting even less for their proposition of repeal of the 18th amendment than did the bone drys for their stand of no change in the laws and more rigorous enforcement...