Word: pint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visitors from the city. City health authorities opened stations to take blood from convalescents from the disease. Convalescent blood serum is a remedy if used early enough. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "an aspirant for the presidency" in 1932, who was stricken by the disease in middle life, gave a pint of his blood. He did likewise...
...What decimal part of 2 bushels, 3 pecks and 4 quarts is 1 bushel, 3 pecks, 1 quart and 1 pint...
...were pleased. For in every doctor's career there are Peter Grimeses. At the time of the man's amputation, he needed blood transfusions. His relatives refused blood or money for blood. Dr. Jerger persuaded internes to donate blood. He paid them $75 of his own money for each pint of blood. Peter Grimes, healed, got some $20,000 as damages, bought himself a motor car, shipped it to Greece where for a time he lived luxuriously. Then back to Chicago. The jury last week did not pity him for the leg he lacked. They gave Dr. Jerger a judgment...
...Chicago Mrs. Mary Mellas, a native of Sparta, gave a pint of her blood to her 5-year-old daughter late one night, gave birth to another daughter the following morning...
...workman's challenge to down a pint of "bitter" almost proved the candidate's undoing. Champagne is, in fact, his drink. Shrewd, he sidestepped the challenge temporarily, practiced at home by gargling bitter beer until he could down the horrid stuff publicly without making a wry face. In Smethwick, his constituency, beer is almost an article of the workingman's faith...