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Word: liquor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first students included an overlarge share of well-heeled Joe Colleges who wore bright yellow slickers, drove fast roadsters, drank corn liquor, and splurged their allowances on the coeds of the old Trinity campus. Some off-campus wags suggested that Duke change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Erudiiio, Religio, et Tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tobacco & Erudition | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...half-time formation the Dartmouth band formed a beer mug, and then emptied it. The Crimson promptly raised the problem of liquor consumption to a more sophisticated level by popping the cork from a huge bottle of champagne and pouring the sparkling liquid into an awaiting cup. They finished off the whole affair with an ultra-polite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Skill Gives Harvard Rooters Weekend Victory | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Liquor sales were slow--slower than they've been for a Dartmouth weekend in a long time--local saloon keepers reported. One restful police sergeant commented, "Times certainly have changed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Invades Quietly | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

...Savoy, Mass. Ave. at Columbus Ave., offers liquor and jazz. Localitte Bob Wilber leads a group of musicians who are almost all better than he. Jimmy Archey is tops on the trombone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA, Outing Club Shindigs Ignite Indian Festivities | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

...passengers kept themselves well amused. The ships had their bars and canteens, and since a ship at sea constitutes a sort of neutral no-man's-land, liquor and such comes tax free. Needless to say, it flowed freely. The foreign lines were more than happy to encourage the Americans to spend their money, especially when they spent dollars. The Dutch Line went so far as to mint some special ships money, script and coin, to keep the students from spending Dutch guilder...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Thousands of US Students Migrate To Europe for Summer Study, Play | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

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