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Word: rubicons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minus its bar, Hausmann's has gone on selling near-beer, as has oldtime Fauerbach's. Both will step it up. Madison's Silver Dollar Bar is gone, but not Hammacher's where freshmen had to "cross the Rubicon"- down a two-quart stein in the tradition, without the sabre-flourishes and "prosits," of the salamander ceremony still performed by German Studentenkorps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Des Lebens Sonnenschein | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...support of Two-Way Time Dr. Lewis suggested that a motion picture of the universe could as well be run backward as forward, would defy no laws. Accepting two-way Causality it is possible to conceive that events which will happen tomorrow might have influenced Caesar to cross the Rubicon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two Times? | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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