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Word: parboiled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nausea sickened the boys. Black jungle folk might drool over the carcass of a boa constrictor. But Penn State students! None the less they were themselves to eat snake flesh to maintain a college tradition. Goggly-eyed, some watched their cook strip the skin from five rattlesnakes, gut them, parboil the sleek joints. The 20 freshmen ate, wearing the green grin of bravado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Klein, Platz | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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