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Word: portchuck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when "the classic shades of Harvard held peaceful sway from their throne of elms to the hills beyond the meadows", and when "offenders against the peace feared rather a dignified reproof in the shape of a few lines of good old Anacreon, than the rubicund justice of a Portchuck leak", the writer goes on to decry the present situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scribe of 1875 Brands Cambridge as Mushroom Town--Sees College Slipping Into Power of Dram-Drinking Politicians | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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