Word: pints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pint-sized Sugar Chile, who sat at the piano with his back to the audience, swung his legs in a savage rhythm, played a rumbling bass. Sugar Chile still cannot reach an octave easily, but says "I can do it with a little jump...
Pulitzer Prize Historian Herbert Agar (The People's Choice) has condensed its nine volumes into two, largely by jettisoning Adams' footnotes and masses of documentary matter. The product is still far from pint-sized: it runs to some 400,000 words, or twice the size of The Education. But at last the general reader may have in reasonably compact form what is acknowledged to be : 1) the standard text in its field, 2) one of the most brilliant of all U.S. histories...
Applications may be filed at PBH next week by those wishing to give blood, with those accepted giving their pint on April 9, 10, or 11 from 12 to 6 o'clock. Men are also needed to solicit donors for the 300-pint quota, and anyone interested may sign up any day next week between 11 and 12 o'clock...
...whole blood can be stored for only about four weeks, and the incoming supply is still insufficient. However, as more and more people participate it is becoming possible to arrange for transfers and eliminate the charge of from $20 to $35 a pint for blood," Strawson added...
Long Shot. In London, Ranee, a female elephant at the zoo, felt a cold-in-the-trunk coming on, was dosed by her keeper with a pint...