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Word: rawboned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1958-1958
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What might have been the first "expose" sheet and was definitely the first college periodical, "The Telltale," predated the Philomusarian by seven years. The eleventh issue declares that the writer has "found out several Clubs in College," including "The Mock Club" founded in 1769 composed of "Persons Rawbon'd humpback'd and Monophthalmic." The publication was short-lived, however, and the editors organized themselves into the Spy Club, whose members discussed such questions as "Whether there be any Standard of Truth," and "Whether it be Fornication to lye with ones Sweetheart before marriage...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Crime: A Nazi at Lowell, Spy Club, 1766 Rebellion, | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

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