Word: pints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tissue from human cancers into his horses. When he figured that they had had time to make antibodies, he bled them, extracted the serum from the blood and injected it into human patients in gradually increasing doses over 21 days, until they had received a total of half a pint...
...turned out, Monterrey did not need the tight pitching of Torres in the Series. The determined youngsters became a bunch of pint-sized sluggers, walloped Pearl Harbor 11-5 as Torres pitched a one-hitter, then whipped Connecticut's Darien team 11-5. In the finals against Kankakee, Ill., Torres got plenty of early batting support. Andrés Galvan, the 65-lb. shortstop, homered over the center-field fence in the second inning, and Monterrey had six runs before Kankakee even got a base runner. Torres had a no-hitter for four innings, a shutout for five. Backed...
Foam Stretch. In Carlisle, England, eight managers of state-owned pubs were brought before a Home Office disciplinary board for repeated failure to draw 300 one-pint servings of beer out of a 288-pint barrel...
...sawed-off, hammered-down, pint-flask-size men of the world hold their heads in pride high above their inches today. A new Napoleon has arisen to the height of five feet seven to lead the bantam brigade...
...will do you French all the harm I can." So said the pint-sized (5 ft. 2 in.), pale-faced Corsican named Buonaparte, who shunned his military schoolmates, read Plutarch in the library instead of playing games. Classmate Louis de Bourrienne also had the luck to be standing with 23-year-old Napoleon, then an out-at-the-elbow discharged officer, as he watched the howling mob sweep through the Tuileries to crown Louis XVI with the red cap of Liberty. He recorded young Buonaparte's Italian exclamation: "Che coglione! How could they let that rabble in? They should...