Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meetings of Massachusetts. Last year the inhabitants of nearly every town within forty miles of Boston voted "dry" by a large margin, when the question of prohibition was considered. On Monday these same towns polled not only a marginal plurality but in nearly every case an actual majority of wet votes. This cannot mean, as some maintain, that the "drys", feeling that this year the issue no longer exists, remained away from the polls; some may have done so, but the majorities were everywhere so large that had the uncounted voters all cast their ballots "dry" the plurality must still...