Word: quart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Chicago. He is prominent in the House on naval affairs and it was he who was given credit for bringing the next Army-Navy foot ball game to his city. Incidentally his business is building construction, and that accounts for his introducing the bill for a world quart (as well as a "world pound" and a "world yard"), a measure which if passed, as it probably will be eventually, may have more effect in its way than even the World Court resolution...
...counsel for the defense. Miss Anderson testified that, at Guantanamo, she received a package as a gift from a friend; she did not open it, but packed it in her chest on her return to this country. A customs inspector at Norfolk opened the chest, the package, found seven quart bottles-gin, rye, Scotch, Bacardi, crème de menthe. Said her counsel: "The court may wonder why her woman's curiosity did not cause her to look into the package, but her testimony is unimpeached." In 15 minutes, the court acquitted...
...same gentlemen and counsel took up Miss Clancy's case. The customs inspector testified that he found four quart bottles in a chest marked with Miss Glancy's name. The defense counsel then pointed out that there was no proof that the bottles were Miss Clancy's, that there was no proof that they contained liquor. The customs agent was asked to taste the stuff. Said he: "I wouldn't be able to tell you anything. I am not an expert on the subject...
...business men experience today, is highly dangerous. It is apt to produce what is known as cardiospasm, when the nerves do not coordinate, and when food which is swallowed does not get into the stomach, but is retained in the gullet,* which expands until sometimes as much as a quart of food is held by it. "The victim experiences great discomfort which is often erroneously attributed to indigestion, and the gullet is inflamed, frequently resulting in cancer where there is a tendency toward that...
...much as a quart of food in the gullet...