Word: drug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore, is only natural that it does not need learning or many brains to make a fair runner, although to make a good racer brains are a prime requisite. From early youth one is confronted with running to the drug store etc, but when one has to outfoot someone that can make his less move as fast as you can, brains are needed, and the difference in brains is often the difference in great runners...
...punchboards referred to are lotteries conducted in drug stores, candy shops, shoe-parlors. The gambler, after paying a fee, punches a numbered slip of paper out of its cell in a square honeycomb. The right number wins a prize. Among the prizes obtainable by school-attending minors were, allegedly, revolvers...
...when little Tar Moorehead (so called to pacify Anderson relatives) discovered the great impersonal world of horses, rats, cows, sheep, and tried to join it by eating grass. He has never lost the sense of curiosity, wonder and cosmic humor experienced by little Tar when he saw the bald drug clerk and his lean wife cutting privy antics. He recalls Tar's first frights, shames, loves, possessions, just writing them down and then looking at them as Tar used to, stupidly perhaps but quite happily, saying, "Well, now. What to think of that?" The only sad note in Huck...
...Hypnotic drugs which induce sleep are often confused with the narcotics which dull pain. Bromides, sulphonal, veronal are hypnotics. Insomniacs take them habitually. Other habit-forming drugs are ether, alcohol, chloroform, hashish (the drug of inspired assassins) and mandrake,* sleepy syrup that comes from a forked root...
William Van Duzer Lawrence, 84, retired Manhattan drug and hotel man, last month read a magazine article which enhanced a major apprehension of his thoughtful age. Young women of intellect, college women (said the article), were more and more avoiding what Mr. Lawrence believes is "their real career"-marriage. Spurred, Mr. Lawrence did what he had long thought of doing. He founded a college...