Word: smushwick
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...Smushwick had a new angle. He wrote his thesis on the eating habits of the merchants on but one block of Mass. Avenue. And for his research, he just looked into a row of garbage cans along Linden Street each morning before punching the clock at the filling station...
...Emerson Hall, they still whisper when they speak of Smushwick. It seems Smushwick got his Ph.D. in Social Relations in only one year, and held down a car washing job besides...
...class would knock him into the gutter. The undergraduates always apologized, and said they were terribly sorry, but there were only a few inches of sidewalk left that weren't taken up by the garbage cans, and they couldn't be expected to walk in the streets, could they? Smushwick always shrugged. Once he had a really narrow escape. The Cambridge Board of Health said that, henceforth, all the cans were to have lids. But the merchants again were on his side. A few of them talked a while with the little man from the Board of Health...
...about Smushwick. Just after the people in Emerson Hall gave him his degree, he had to take a leave of absence. They say he picked up some disease doing post-doctoral research...
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