Word: pint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very deep inhalation contains five quarts of air. A person can never completely void his lungs of air. Even in death about one quart remains. In ordinary quiet breathing the average lung always contains a residue of two and a half quarts of air. Quiet inhalation adds a pint. Ordinary people use only three-fifths of their lung capacity. Miss Maclntyre, who breathes about a fifth as fast as her Goucher pupils, uses practically all her lungs at each breath. Her continual ability to do this results, physiologists guess, from some particular modification of a section of the sub-brain...
...recipes: Lime Fizz-"Make an orange syrup by boiling together for five minutes one half cupful each of water, sugar and thin shavings from the rind of one orange. Cool and strain. Add the juice of four limes or one-fourth cupful of bottled lime juice. Dilute with one pint of iced plain or charged water." Mint Julep-"Five lemons, one bunch fresh mint, one and one-half cups of sugar, one-half cup water, three bottles of ginger ale. Combine ingredients except ginger ale and let stand one half hour: add ginger ale and pour over ice; serve...
...sample Everson day: Flew from Indianapolis to Muncie (54 miles), performed a wedding and a funeral, visited five sick parishioners, gave a pint of blood to a dying boy, witnessed a major operation of a friend, edited the church's weekly bulletin, wrote a Sunday sermon, returned to Indianapolis before 8 a.m. next...
...Green Hat." Casually up the marble steps which lead to the Senate Office Building walked George Lyons Cassidy one day last week. Under his coat something was hidden. Police stopped him, found a pint of whiskey on him, other bottles...
...cutter. The intricate code had been deciphered, its source determined by radio compass. Thus had Prohibition men located the syndicate headquarters. New Jersey's Prohibition-Administrator William J. Calhoun, superviser of the syndicate roundup, boasted that by eavesdropping on this telltale radio he had for months checked every pint smuggled in. Unperturbed by the 10,000 cases of liquor whisked in every week, Administrator Calhoun had shrewdly plotted his concerted raid. Following up radio clues, he had learned all the privy affairs of his prospective victims, names of leaders, location of substations, connections with reputable banks and lawyers. When...