Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilian defense and other Governmental agencies in preparing this country for the dilemma which now confronts us that the large numbers of healthy young men in our universities are a legitimate pool from which blood may be obtained. Blood will only be drawn in 500 cc., i.e. 1 pint, lots from individuals who are healthy and in whom such a withdrawal would leave-no deleterious effects. It is required that mature minors (that is individuals under 21) bring with them the written consent of their parents of guardians...
Your odoriferous article on Philadelphia's water supply (TIME, Oct. 27) marks a new milestone in TIME'S steadily mounting reputation as a fiction publication. For your edification, I am sending you a pint of water drawn from a tap in my home...
...most of them the tax meant that the slim margin they had left for luxuries-vacations, permanent waves, a pint of beer in the evening-had disappeared. To some it meant cutting necessities from their budgets. Bachelors talked of marrying widows with large families to take advantage of the $200-per-child annual exemption. Engaged girls wondered whether to get married, since, by a quirk of the law, unmarried couples living together get $40 more exemption than married ones. All other British wage-earners chewed the tops of pencils, figured, pulled long faces...
...began their seasonal boom. Victor, most kiddie-conscious of disc makers, released its Christmas list: six sides from Walt Disney's Dumbo, and eleven Bluebird (Victor's cheaper label) albums. Seven of the eleven albums are the work of Helen Myers, who is the Rodgers & Hart of pint-sized music. Miss Myers, onetime Oklahoma City Junior Leaguer, Phi Beta Kappa, concert and jive pianist (a year at Manhattan's Rainbow Room), composer of moderately successful popular songs, has been with Victor for two years, dreaming up ideas for the children's list. In the current...
...serious dietary deficiency diseases have been observed, although Sir Wilson is sure they will turn up in the future. Although all food is scarce, only the following are rationed: meat, bacon, butter, margarine, cheese, tea, sugar, jam.* All persons must register for milk; mothers and infants get a pint a day, schoolchildren a little more. Although this is low, it is actually more than most of them got before the war, said Sir Wilson. His great worry, he said last week, is in the shortage of meat and cheese for workers in heavy industry and for growing children between...