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Word: pint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under First Sea Lord Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet is Admiral Sir Charles Morton Forbes, 60, a softspoken, blue-eyed, pint-sized gunnery specialist who reached the top without social pull, who likes to prune his own apple trees, whose second wife is a Swede. He saw the carnage at the Dardanelles as executive officer of the Queen Elizabeth, was the late Admiral Earl Jellicoe's fleet gunnery officer at Jutland in the Iron Duke, for which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Royal Navy's Test | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...pint milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...sold as low as 5? a pint. Of 3,257,096 gallons consumed in the U. S. last year, Government officials refused to estimate how much was taken internally, but estimates by States run from 10% to 75%. Technically therapeutic, rubbing alcohol is exempt from the $4.25-per-gal. Federal alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Rub- | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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