Word: pint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beer (brands unspecified), 17? per pint, six pints for $1.00, six quarts...
Whiskey. "More than 99 prescriptions out of 100 written for a pint of whiskey are bootlegging prescriptions and are a disgrace to the great medical profession."?Dr. Bevan...
...Officer Gohane broke his club in two pieces. Officer Prior drew his pistol when the mob cried, "Get the damn cop!" Clubbing began soon after the students tried to tip over a patrol wagon. Besides ice and eggs, bottles, both pint and quart sizes, were hurled. Some of the students were suspected of having drunk intoxicants from some of the bottles...
...Lexington, Ky., one pint of nitroglycerin stood at the mouth of an oil shaft. A dog drank it. Workmen ran for their lives. Stimulated by his draft, the loaded cur pursued a rabbit. The rabbit leaped down a bank. Jumping after it, the dog exploded...
...five-to-four majority the scales of justice may well be said to hang by a hair. Such was the situation last week when the court of last resort upheld the provision of the Volstead Act which limits the amount of whiskey that physicians may prescribe to one pint every ten days. Paradoxically enough, this decision was written by Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who often dissents from decisions restricting individual "liberty...