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...Franciscans favored U. S. whiskeys, particularly De Luxe ($3.35 a pint), Golden Wedding ($3), Greenbriar ($3). Old Raven ($3), Cedar Brook ($2.75). Popular gins were Old Ram's Head ($1.75 a fifth), Old Colony ($1.55) and a local product, Old Smoothie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: Prices | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...afternoon. During which time...they had cider fetch(ed) in by ...Ailing... as he judgeth in all about 3 qts. for which they paid 2d a quart." Barnard, the other Freshman, stopped in to see Alling and "found they had some rum, which they had been drinking of." Another pint was soon required and sent for "which was mixt with water and sugar. They drank it among them but he saw no excess." After this addition was gone, still another pint was secured, making the total for the three boys in the hours between noon and three or four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seventeenth Century Freshmen Before Danforth Fined Lightly For Drinking | 12/2/1933 | See Source »

...testimony of Stanley, who signed with a cross since he, like all the girls and a few of the good burghers of the town, was unable to sign his name, reveals another visit to the College on January 3, with James Alling, the willing Freshman, fetching the pint to be again "mixt with sugar and water." The action of the college seems to have stopped with the slight fine imposed by Danforth in his capacity as justice of the peace. It is due to the investigation made necessary by the more serious scandals concerning the activities of Mary Ruggles, Hannah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seventeenth Century Freshmen Before Danforth Fined Lightly For Drinking | 12/2/1933 | See Source »

...Wisconsin, with favorable results. Cyclopropane is not unpleasant to take, without harmful effects on the heart, less inflammable than other anesthetic gases, as relaxing to the patient as ether. ¶ Oxygen skillfully injected in small quantities under the skin will accomplish almost everything that inhaled oxygen does. A pint of subcutaneous oxygen has the beneficial effects of several hundred gallons of inhaled oxygen. Presuming skill on the part of the doctor, injected oxygen lessens the cost and speeds the efficacy of oxygen therapy in pneumonia, heart disease, asthma, carbuncles, severe infections, deep burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anesthetists in Chicago | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...Ossining, N. Y. huge James Cullen gave his soth blood transfusion, calculated that he had sold 54 pints of blood at $50 per pint in the past six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 23, 1933 | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

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