Word: mouthwash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public by the CRIMSON and the "Lampoon" recently. It was also found that the average cut in allowances amounted to six percent last year. Among other statistics the report discovered that 52 per cent of the upperclassmen had some sort of laxative on hand, 59 per cent used a mouthwash, while 82 per cent had in their possession antiseptics, such as iodine...
Last year he had joined the chorus and, like the unhappy swain in the mouthwash advertisements, received no answer. This year he refused to waste his breath. Reason: he is the world's last heath cock. All his fellows and all heath hens are dead. This heath fowl, a North American grouse, is a close relative of the prairie chicken and about the same size. A mottled grey, his protective coloring makes him practically invisible among the scrub oaks which he frequents. Plenteous 75 years ago, the birds dwindled until 1907 when protective measures were taken. By 1916 they...