Word: pint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia Athletics' pint-size Pitcher Bobby Shantz (TIME, June 23), over the Boston Red Sox, 5 to 3, to become the first major-league hurler to win 20 games this season...
...carefully whitened doorstep of a tiny terrace home in the Lancashire cotton city of Bolton (pop. 200,000), a milkman set down three pint bottles. "They usually take four," he said, "but with one or two of them on short time, they're down to two or three." At the grocery store down the street, Bolton housewives were no longer buying their full egg ration (one per week). A big bakery, supplying Bolton's suburbs, cut its daily bake by 1,000 loaves...
P.B.H. officials are trying to best last fall's 2,116-pint total, an unofficial collegiate blood record. Red Cross National Headquarters officials say that they tabulate blood contributions only by regions, and thus cannot state whether the University's total is actually the nation's largest. Closest competitor is the University of Idaho with 1,400 pints...
P.B.H. officials hope to better last fall's 2,116-pint record, unofficially cited as the largest single collegiate blood contribution in the country...
Evidence. In Elk City, Okla., Clyde Brewer, on trial for possessing liquor in a dry state, was held in contempt of court when he admitted that during a recess he had swigged half a pint of Exhibit...