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Word: claustral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student body from rum and nicotine. The Kansas hatchet-swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid modern prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls, where a thousand students were eating their midday meal. She had heard that ham was occasionally served with champagne sauce and that she had seen a menu which listed wine jelly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Hall Scene of Numerous Episodes Connected With Harvard History --- Carrie Nation's Riot There Memorable | 11/30/1932 | See Source »

...take a man with a white lawn tie, a black frock coat, side whiskers and the pallor of a medieval monk, to preside over a college devoted chiefly to the liberal arts." Patton had been a Presbyterian pastor, and a professor in the Princeton Theological School; he had a claustral and philosophic austerity that raised fears for the new administration among both students and graduates. Quite to the contrary of these forebodings, the new president made himself personally likeable in undergraduate circles and was able to develop Princeton from a college afflicted with minor growing pains, into a fullfledged university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANCIS L. PATTON | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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