Word: pint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-five dollars a pint is the market price for fresh, clean human blood, which is sold by physicians and surgeons and used to replenish the blood supply of patients who have lost a good deal of the fluid during operations or through sickness. A human being can safely spare a pint out of the eight quarts of blood in his body once in six months, according to the doctor in charge at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Some men have been known to supply as much as two quarts during the six month period, but the doctor did not recommend...
...Giving the blood isn't painful", he said. "All that is done is to stick a needle into the donor's arm and pump ous as much of the fluid as is needed. About a pint can be taken with perfect safety and a quart has been removed without ill effects, but if the larger amount is taken from some persons they notice had symptoms, such as tiring easily and getting short of breath. If they drink a good deal of water and rest completely for a day or so they will recover entirely...
...whether the accomplishments will balance the cost of the prosecution. So far the $100,000 expenditure is equivalent to buying every family in the country almost a gill of gasoline at retail prices. If the entire affair does not cost Uncle Sam's children more than a pint per family, they will be reasonably lucky...
...five minutes both cows were reported "clean." The victory was awarded to Secretary Wallace because he had drawn a pint more of milk. Senator Johnson, the challenger, protested the decision on the ground that Cora Johanna Frenesta Dekol, his cow, had been milked too recently. The quantities of milk were not given...
Cora Johanna Frenesta Dekol-a pint short...