Search Details

Word: pint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Defeated (55-10-26) a bill introduced by Connecticut's Bingham to legalize beer containing 2.75% alcohol, to be taxed 2? a pint for revenue purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 6, 1932 | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...Defeat (216-10-132) a proposal to raise $350.000,000 by legalizing 2.75% beer and taxing it 3¢ per pint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Bullneck & Buzzard | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

More power to May Breen for her stand (as reported in your issue of Dec. 21) in demanding recognition by American Federation of Musicians for ukuleles; and I trust that I will not be out of tune in suggesting that in spite of our half-pint size there is just as much music in us as there is in a lot of bass horns, piccolos, saxophones and other instruments I have known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...with his grey felt hat battered out of shape by low beams. In the centre of the gun-deck President Hoover stopped to gaze at a brassbound barrel marked: GROG TUB. Commander Louis Gulliver explained that from it used to come the sailors' daily ration of a half-pint of strong drink. The President nodded, passed on silently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Eye to Eye | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...London the price of goats and goat's milk has gone up. At Kingsley Hall, where St. Gandhi sleeps and spins, a secretary disclosed that during the first days of his visit goat's milk was hard to get and cost about four shillings ($1) a pint, could be found only in wholesale apothecary shops dealing in roots, herbs and obscure drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Gandhi's Goat | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Previous | 212 | 213 | 214 | 215 | 216 | 217 | 218 | 219 | 220 | 221 | 222 | 223 | 224 | 225 | 226 | 227 | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | Next