Word: quart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pitchfork is the Secretary's power to tax. To raise money to pay land rents and Domestic Allotment "benefits" he may levy on every bushel of wheat the miller turns to flour, on every pound of pork and beef the packer turns to ham and steak, on every quart of milk and cream that go into butter and cheese, on every pound of cotton the spinner makes into cloth. This processing tax, heart of the Roosevelt relief scheme, is a variable quantity which the Secretary of Agriculture adjusts to bring farm prices up to the desired level. Once they...
Minus its bar, Hausmann's has gone on selling near-beer, as has oldtime Fauerbach's. Both will step it up. Madison's Silver Dollar Bar is gone, but not Hammacher's where freshmen had to "cross the Rubicon"- down a two-quart stein in the tradition, without the sabre-flourishes and "prosits," of the salamander ceremony still performed by German Studentenkorps...
Adams Dunster Eliot Kirkland Leverett Lowell Winthrop Union Total 1 Do you drink beer? Yes 86 84 159 104 133 175 132 412 1285 No 17 12 70 21 21 15 25 138 319 2. Would a quart of non-intoxicating 3.2 beer, drunk with meals: Put you under the table? 2 8 16 6 12 16 7 42 109 Disturb the Waitress? 12 7 22 7 19 32 9 75 183 Improve the taste of University food? 72 69 141 86 110 137 120 394 1129 3. If Cambridge ordinances permit, do you favor the service of beer...
...Would a quart of non-intoxicating 3.2 beer, drunk with meals: put you under the table? improve the taste of University food...
...Sandusky, Ohio, inmates of the Ohio Soldiers' & Sailors' Home give local bootleggers, prostitutes & gamblers rushing business twice a month when the pension checks arrive. When five inmates were taken to the Home's infirmary poisoned by liquor at 25? the quart. State Senator Joseph N. Ackerman asked Ohio's Governor George White to place the area surrounding the Home under martial law to correct "rotten" conditions...