Word: constrictor
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...would be willing to ask a dairyman if his cows were Leghorns. And when six per cent do not know what an Artichoke is, while six more assert it to be a fish, three a lizard, and one, no doubt thinking of the strangling powers (choke) of a boa constrictor, claims it as denoting a snake we cannot help but wonder in what world these sixteen per cent receive their information--or lack of it." And of especial interest to Harvard men is the following quotation from the article...