Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syrupy Wine. Such sites are safe from most archeologists, who are generally more learned than athletic, but Philippe Diolé, director of Undersea Archeological Research for the French National Museums, is not merely learned. He is a "skin-diver," and loves nothing better than swimming under water with mask and air cylinder. Often the bottom of the sea is a desert with nothing to show that man has ever sailed over it, but sometimes an encrusted object looks somehow suspicious to Diolé's well-educated eye. Diolé investigates. He finds a chunk of Carrara marble...
Then through the diving digger's mind runs a torrent of history. Sometimes he knows the names of the merchant princes who shipped the jug of wine. He knows the temple, now disappeared, for which a cargo of marble columns was intended. He wonders, while the brilliant fish flutter around his head, why one Fadius Musa, a rich merchant of ancient Narbonne, loaded his ship so heavily with marble that the sea dragged it down...
...possible, affability and general good fellowship would increase in the dining rooms, and the sparkle of conversation would be supplemented by champagne and sparkling burgundy. Of course, the academic side of the University could help in its own small way with snifters before each class. Red wine before a meaty lecture, and white wine before a fowl...
...merely drinking wine did not make a dent in the surplus, Dillon could run wine in its showers, and the Department of Buildings and Grounds could spray the shrubs with rich, red, life-giving fluid. Naturally, late working students would burn the midnight wine, and clever students would lever be devising new means to use up the surplus...
Such a large scale undertaking must not lack administrative handling, and although the Adams House wine tasters have been extremely remiss in bringing the present situation before the eyes of the University, they are the logical group to handle the situation. By changing their standards to stress quantity instead of quality, they could easily devise many more ingenious methods to help the wine growers. The University awaits its leadership in this philanthropic enterprise...