Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashioned furnace may be bound for the postwar ash heap. Cheap new miniature house heaters have recently been announced by the soft-coal industry and an auto-heater manufacturer. This week the anthracite industry joined in with a pint-sized burner...
...hotel-goer patiently stands in slow-moving queues at the understaffed registration desk. He rides to the wrong floors in jerky elevators operated by flippant, teen-age boys & girls or by deaf old gaffers. The call "Front" may bring a pint-sized bellhop, but usually the traveler totes his own bags. Frequently he is ushered into a room that seems to have been bombed: the bed unmade, the bureau loaded with dreg-laden tumblers, the ash trays choked with butts. One wet, crumpled towel is left on the washstand, the legacy of yesterday's guest, who seems to have...
...Lieut. Commander K. P. A. Taylor (retired) reported in the Naval Medical Bulletin that the larger the city, the smaller the per-capita donation. Harrisburg (pop. 84,000) gives a pint a week for every no citizens, New York (pop. 7,500,000) gives one pint per 1,570. Commander Taylor thought big cities would give more if they had more than one center apiece...
...only 16, one of them having been found to be more out of key than the others. The family bell, fourth largest in the set, now signals the end of classes at the Business School. The 16 at Lowell range in size from a 13-ton brute to a pint-sized gremlin of 22 pounds...
...Minister Matthew Elting Hanna. His graceful dancing entranced Mrs. Hanna. The Americans pushed Tacho's fortunes, were gratified when President Moncada put him at the head of the National Guard. In good time, Tacho used the National Guard to liquidate his most formidable rival: Augusto Sandino, the pint-sized, ferocious patriot whose ragged guerrillas never yielded to the U.S. Marines. In 1936, Tacho took the Presidency for himself in a phony election, won immediate U.S. recognition...