Word: doping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tapped the steel mast, found it hollow. "Bring a drill!" said he. Out of this hole in the hollow mast he soon extracted tins of opium worth $150,000 at $25 an ounce. Owners of the ship, James Chambers Ltd. of Liverpool are liable to fines equal to the dope's value, if they cannot prove ignorance of the smuggle...
...what liquor and what dope Did those linesmen base their hope...
...hackneyed one, or a smart new one with an element of trickery, by which people got along in the world. Its later, criminal adaptation has two shades of meaning: 1) the whole general ''Racket" of preying on society by any and all illegal means, especially by selling dope, liquor, women, gambling; 2) the specific racket, as perfected by Chicago's underworldlings with many variations, of making tradesmen join a "union" and pay "dues" for protection from the gangster's "mob," who smash florist windows, overturn laundry wagons, bomb grocery stores, burn unfinished buildings...
Drug addicts are the smartest inmates of Federal prisons, the Government figured last week. Public Health Service mental hygienists had studied the intelligence test ratings of the prisoners. Significant is the fact that 30 out of 100 dope fiends are above average intelligence. Of nonaddicts 18% rate above average, 17% defective. Only 10% of the addicts are defective...
...Shallow tutoring is foreign to the purpose of all worth-while study, encourages habits of mental laziness, and is worse than useless in preparing for comprehensive examinations of upperclass years. (4) It is partially responsible for the failure of men who relied, in Freshman, and Sophomore years, on intellectual dope and found it unavailing later. (This last charge is based upon records of men dropped for scholastic deficiency...