Word: dypsomania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memorial-Hall-long-table-biscuit-throwing era. What is more, the generations which it oversaw had not, for the most part, discovered that intemperance is next to godliness, and that grain alcohol is much cheaper, yea, and more effective than wines. Perhaps today's undergraduate would carry his dypsomania with him into the dining halls. A great many sensible people feel that he would not, that encouraging the use of wine and beers in the dining halls would, as it were, short-circuit his craving for stouter stuff, and that the comparative austerity of the Houses would prevent unseemliness...
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