Word: unctuous
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Dates: during 1916-1916
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Students will soon be actually playing tennis on Sunday; clanging trolley-cars will destroy forever the sacred quiet of Brattle street itself. It may even happen that those gentle hurricanes of dust in Harvard square will yield to the unctuous persuasion of a modern water-wagon, and the secluded dusk of our streets will be lightened by the brazen rays of a real are-light...