Word: pints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sherwood Anderson, novelist: "My wife Beanie home from Italy and was surprised to find Americans had not learned how generally castor oil discipline was administered by the Fascisti. To a reporter she said: ' Every Communist found was compelled either to sip or gulp a pint of castor oil. It was amusing to see Fascisti, wearing black shirts and looking very earnest, bottles sticking out of their hip pockets, chasing wildly down the street after a shrieking Communist. Then the capture, the terrible assault, hurling the luckless Red to the sidewalk, injecting the bottle into his mouth to the muffled accompaniment...
...first was a return flight from Roosevelt Field to West Point. The trip was made on two gallons of gas and a pint of oil at a cost of 62 cents...
...main points in the budget are: a reduction from 5s to 4/6d in the pound on the income tax, a 50 percent reduction on corporation tax, a decrease in taxation on beer by 1d a pint, reduction of postal charges. No new taxation was introduced. The estimated revenue for the coming year is approximately $3,806,025,000 as against approximately $4,235,103,750 for last year's estimated revenue. The expenditure is figured at the approximate figure of $3,797,264,400 against last year's $4,235,103,750. Thus the Treasury has a small...
...discussing the problem. Professor Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins University describes an experiment which he conducted with a pint milk-bottle, a supply of yeast and banana agar, and about a dozen flies (genus ). The food supply of yeast and banana agar was put it the bottom of the bottle and then the flies were enclosed, and the whole kept at a uniform temperature for about fifty days. During this time the flies multiplied so that the milk bottle--representing the United States--could not hold them all, nor the food supply give sufficient nourishment. The population, so to speak...
...elective system was made practically necessary by the huge expansion of the field of knowledge which took place in the nineteenth century. It was no longer possible to make any pretense that a four-year curriculum could supply the elixir of all learning "in a pint pot." A certain range of choice was inevitable. The wide expansion of the system, however, which opened up virtually all subjects to the student's choice, was the result of a theory, an educational dogma. This dogma was of Teutonic origin-a result of the "scientific culture" of modern Germany. Method was exalted above...