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Word: pint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long Island duck, mixed with one can of peas and one pint of olives, to be cooked into a brown stew and served with dumplings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 30, 1926 | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...person was concealed a sere little volume in calf called Histoire des Pirates Anglois, with a marker at the tale of fearless Mary Read, entered the gathering whirl of events through another card of Hiltonshurley Moggs, thrown away by a thirsty rumdum to whom Mr. Moggs had given a pint of whiskey instead of a dole. It looked to Kendrick like a good little story. It became an epic. Ruth Pudley's bright-haired presence is even simpler to explain. She was "busted" out of Bryn Mawr for "deplorable contumacy of conduct." She was ready to divorce or annul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

Harvard now opened up with a brilliant offense and Linn scored her first pint towards the end of the half.--Schenectady Gazette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: F. P. A Reads Proof | 4/29/1926 | See Source »

...There are 16 ounces to a pint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Milk | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

Down on 42nd Street, workmen dug up the cornerstone of the old Murray Hill Baths, once known as "The House of a Thousand Hangovers," another landmark of a Manhattan that is vanishing. Underneath it they found a pint of champagne, two pieces of script, old-fashioned paper money (for 25? and 50?), four copper coins, and letters of patent issued to one Dwight Berry Brown in 1814 for the invention of a waterloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Treatment | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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