Word: screws
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There appears to be trouble of a more serious nature at Vassar. The Mis. declares that there is a "screw loose" in the "moral sentiments" of the collegians, in consequence of which young ladies habitually abstract newspapers containing "scientific articles" from the reading-room...
Behold us at sea. The second day out the great American Humbug broke her screw, and also sprang a leak, because one of the side plates had not been properly fastened...