Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sight of a mouse, pivoting on a hind leg, gyroscopically whirling around 416 times without stopping or reversing might reasonably lead the observer to conclude that he or the mouse was drunk. Yet sober scientists have watched a sober mouse perform this very feat. The whirler was a Japanese waltzing mouse. It whirled because of a physical defect, probably of its inner...
...Would a quart of non-intoxicating 3.2 beer, drunk with meals: put you under the table? improve the taste of University food...
...historian, moreover, will not forget that the House take their architecture from a period when every inn boasted "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for twopence." Even the Greek golden mean could not sober up the great tutor Person. These may be harsh truths, but Harvard can not with impunity appropriate the more outer trappings of Georgian buildings. Every discreet and rebellious panel years to look once more upon the honest revelry of ale. And the shades of the old Moors can not but rise in anger at the aridity of the common rooms which their antique arches crown...
Author Ford Madox Ford, an almost U. S.-acclimatized Britisher, still makes little leaps in the dark when he comes to some Americanisms. He writes of a woman getting drunk as "canning herself"; makes Hero Smith figure out that the foreign word "valise" means "grip"; but neglects to translate "spanner" into monkey wrench...
...Massachusetts State Senator filed a bill to forbid boxers who differ more than 15 lb. in weight striking each other. Meanwhile sports reporters gave clues which alert Medicine seemed likely to heed. Grantland Rice observed: "Head punching has left in its wake a long line of shambling, goofy, punch-drunk fighters who walk about on their heels in the paper doll ward with badly scrambled brains...