Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hinge the engine's boiler in the middle to get it around the curves; of how the conductor in the caboose bummed chewing tobacco from the engineer in his cab as the little train coiled back on itself on hairpin turns; of how buffalo charged the pint-sized engines ; of how the train rolled down the mountain so fast it reached Antonito ahead of the sound of its whistle...
...prepare universal blood, they add a few milligrams of A and B powders to each pint of type O. These added A and B crystals are strong enough to destroy the anti-A and anti-B factors. The neutralized blood can be used immediately, in hospital or battlefield, for all transfusions. The doctors have used the powders successfully in over 100 cases at Buffalo General Hospital, have already sent a supply to London...
...Senate passed a bill last week which 1) made sense, 2) overjoyed a lot of people (and one pint-sized algebra teacher), 3) cost a mere $20,000,000. This sensational measure, which the House is expected to approve speedily, aroused no controversy at all. The paragon bill simply permitted the U.S. to pay two-thirds of the construction cost of unfinished sections of the Inter-American Highway between Mexico and Panama. The Governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama will pay the other third...
Model Menu. For good health, the Conference urged citizens of all ages to eat the following foods every day: "One pint of milk for an adult and more for a child; a serving of meat . . . one egg or some suitable substitute such as navy beans; two vegetables, one of which should be green or yellow; two fruits, one of which should be rich in vitamin C, found abundantly in citrus fruits and tomatoes; breads, flour and cereal, most or preferably all whole grain or enriched; some butter or oleomargarine with vitamin A added; other foods to satisfy the appetite." With...
...when Abbott let his pint-sized brother-in-law, a Florida lawyer, take over (1926), the Defender started down the skids. Livelier competitors (the Baltimore Afro-American and Pittsburgh Courier) grabbed a lot of Defender circulation with pictures of barer brownskin and high yaller gals, more chest-thumping against race discrimination. The Defender staff had to be harshly shaken up. The brother-in-law, bounced at last, sued the now-ailing Abbott for $85,000. Mrs. Abbott No. 1 won an expensive divorce suit. Abbott put his favorite nephew in charge of the paper. The Defender went from...