Word: pint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon. During which time...they had cider fetch(ed) in by ...Ailing... as he judgeth in all about 3 qts. for which they paid 2d a quart." Barnard, the other Freshman, stopped in to see Alling and "found they had some rum, which they had been drinking of." Another pint was soon required and sent for "which was mixt with water and sugar. They drank it among them but he saw no excess." After this addition was gone, still another pint was secured, making the total for the three boys in the hours between noon and three or four...
...Wisconsin, with favorable results. Cyclopropane is not unpleasant to take, without harmful effects on the heart, less inflammable than other anesthetic gases, as relaxing to the patient as ether. ¶ Oxygen skillfully injected in small quantities under the skin will accomplish almost everything that inhaled oxygen does. A pint of subcutaneous oxygen has the beneficial effects of several hundred gallons of inhaled oxygen. Presuming skill on the part of the doctor, injected oxygen lessens the cost and speeds the efficacy of oxygen therapy in pneumonia, heart disease, asthma, carbuncles, severe infections, deep burns...
...Ossining, N. Y. huge James Cullen gave his soth blood transfusion, calculated that he had sold 54 pints of blood at $50 per pint in the past six years...
...Deaconess Hospital in Boston gives tests to determine four groupings for donors; patients are also divided into four corresponding groups. The amount of the fee depends upon whether the patient is in a private or open ward. The usual amount of blood transferred in one pint in this case, but there are professional blood-sellers who can give as much as one gallon a month without endangering their health...
...actress is that, however deplorable her circumstances may be, she remains a lady. Thus the most spurious moment in this picture is the one which shows Lilly Turner hunched drunkenly on the front seat of the medicine show truck which her lover is driving, guzzling whiskey out of a pint bottle and confessing, with improbably heroic hiccoughs, that she has a Past...