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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 »

...Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1925 | 6/18/1925 | See Source »

...thought likely. It will be a literal crossing of the Rubicon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: An Historic Stride | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

...keeps within the bounds of decency. He may be cordially disliked all this time, but that is as far as his punishment can go. There is a line, however, which this joker may not cross and remain the same harmless though tiresome person. Once he has traversed this Rubicon, he subjects himself to punitive treatment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING WITH FIRE | 4/5/1918 | See Source »

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