Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minimum dietary standard to provide a yardstick for judging the sufficiency or insufficiency of the diets of all peoples, and translated this into an ideal American diet. The diet, for one person, for one day: Ten ounces of grain products, such as bread and cereals. Slightly more than one pint of milk. A half pound of starch-rich vegetables, such as potatoes or yams...
Last July, when the steaming heat lay stifling across northeast India, a perky, pint-sized, hickory-tough U.S. Army officer slung a sack of dollar watches over his shoulder and set out on foot through one of the world's wildest jungles. He was armed only with a stout Kentucky hunting knife. His escort was a file of stocky, semicivilized native bearers...
Sued for Divorce. By Elizabeth Hicks Newell, 22, pint-sized, long-driving 1941 women's national amateur golf champion, now a professional: Oklahoma aircraft executive Frank Newell, 27; in Long Beach, Calif...
...station platforms along the way, some 15,000 turned up at the shipyard. There, during three and a half hours of oratorical and musical whoop-te-do, the five eight-year-olds sat on a lofty platform, at 45-minute intervals marched to a ship and smashed a pint of Niagara River water on a bow. Lefthanded Emilie, whose possible performance had caused a little worry, did beautifully with a masterly righthanded smack. Biggest applause of the day was given to Papa Dionne, who took...
Rule-of-thumb rationing down the line to the ultimate consumer has resulted in all kinds of inequalities. States with local liquor control compounded the confusion; 13 of the 17 liquor-monopoly states have instituted rationing. Thus the per capita quota runs from a pint a week in Virginia to as much as two quarts a day in Vermont. But, on a national basis, liquormen figure that U.S. stocks of domestic whiskeys (404,000,000 gal.) will last for about three sober, 70% years, leave another year's supply aging for the peace...