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Word: flasks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...board, are the 206 disjointed bones of an adult. One could actually see what one has been taught but scarcely believes, that the head is made up of a lower jaw and 21 other bones. (The 21 are fused together at zigzag joints to make the firm though perforated flask of the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: German Hygiene Museum | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...having said that in more than four years as head of B. U., during which he attended football games, parties, banquets, and smokers, he has seen only two students who appeared to have been drinking. He has never seen a student drunk or a student with a pocket flask...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EX PALUDE | 5/23/1930 | See Source »

Never before in Manhattan had the U. S. pestered the "little fellow," the "hip flask toter." In Chicago and other cities this strategy has been used sporadically against night clubs. Declared New York's Prohibition Administrator Maurice Campbell after the Hollywood raid: "This is the first instance-but if the practice is not discontinued it will not be the last." Prohibition Commissioner Doran in Washington denied that any new national policy was involved. Purpose: to see if New Yorkers could be convicted for public drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pint Raid | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...Class two--the modern girl with short skirts and short hair (this was written last year), but a long line. They have an intimate acquaintance with a cigarette, have heard of a pocket flask, and choose their courses according to the unmarried status of the professors. They show a fighting Irish spirit in maintaining two or three or four strings to every bow. (He means four beaux to every string). They are not bad company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Dormitory, Please? | 1/31/1930 | See Source »

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