Word: soda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Harvard offers to the student less opportunity for what is commonly called "social life" in a narrow sense is obviously true. The hilarious mutual congratulation growing out of the coincidence that youths, seeking a classic education, buy soda water at the same drug store, and listen to the same lectures on architecture or biology, is less obstreperous than elsewhere. So far as I am aware, there is little, if any, of the kind of college life typified by the guitar with the blue ribbon and the felt flag bearing the name of Alma Mater in large white letters. Neither...
...village near Camp Knox, and a small R. O. T. C. exchange has been installed near the students' area. Then men, when off duty, are allowed and urged to make use of the Camp Knox Officers' Club, which is fully equipped with a reading room, barber shop, tennis courts, soda fountain and dance hall. Once a week dances are held at the club and all cadets are invited to attend. During the week the men are free from third mess at 6.30 P. M. until taps at 10. On Saturdays and Sundays the cadets will be permitted...
...certain paragrapher has aptly pointed out that the problem of "concurrent legislation" resolves itself into the question whether "concurrent" implies a blending together, as with gin and vermouth, or one sovereign, as with whiskey and soda. A New Jersey court has decided in favor of whiskey and soda, and Governor Coolidge, with a firmness that brings a tear to dry eyes, and a lump to dry throats, yet withal wisely, has declined to dissent from the opinion...
...what the Eighteenth Amendment says? Are the states' laws on the subject constitutional with respect to either or both? If not, which? Does "concurrent jurisdiction" mean literally "running together"--like the blending of gin and vermouth? Or does it mean acting together, but one sovereign, like whiskey and soda? As far as we are able to see, "Nobody knows--and nobody seems to care." All we may do is to be philosophical like the valet, who tried to comfort his master in an agony of gout with the words: "It's not your fault, sir. You really cawn't help...