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Word: pints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army Medical Corps' pint-sized Major Sammy Lee, 35, twice (1948, 1952) Olympic high-diving champion, 1953 winner of the Sullivan Trophy as the U.S.'s outstanding amateur athlete, and a Korean war veteran, disclosed that two Southern California real-estate men recently gave him a rough time when he was shopping for a $12,000 house. His sin: California-born Dr. Lee is of Korean ancestry. Explained one real-estate man to him: "I'm sorry, Doctor, but I have to eat, and I'd lose my job for selling to a nonwhite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...study with a pioneering genius in the field of atomics. The genius, Henry Maartens, is a wheezing hypochondriac who bubbles away on such topics as "fields of unembodied organization." Henry's personal universe "was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why Not Viscerosophy? | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...buying up of wine and distribute it in weekly rations of about a quart apiece to the country's "economically feeble," i.e., paupers, sick people over 60, everyone over 65. The Cabinet also recommended that the Defense Ministry increase by 50% the army's ration, now a pint of rough red pinard a day. In doing so, the government neatly canceled out former Premier Mendés-France's campaign to cut down on winebibbing among the soldiery. By Mendés-France's order, the serving of milk is obligatory at army messes: soldiers will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Drink Up | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

White Lightning is produced from a mash of 85% corn. 15% malt -no rats, snakes or lye. It is aged less than 30 days, and then the aging process is stopped by storing it in uncharred. paraffin-lined barrels. At $4.40 a quart ($2.25 a pint), it costs less than most aged amber whiskies but slightly more than moonshine ($3.50 to $4 a quart). North Carolinians snapped up the first consignment."Man," said one satisfied customer last week, "that's just like I was raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Legal Lightning | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...Half a mile from the finish in the last of nine races for the Syce Cup and the Long Island Sound women's sailing championship, pint-sized Toni Monetti, 18, who won the midget title only five years ago, messed up a jibe and lost most of the lead she had built up on the first leg. Without wasting a moment, the Skidmore College sophomore went forward to untangle the sheets of her Lightning's big spinnaker. She finished in time to sail home third, earning just enough points to bring the Syce Cup home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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