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Word: quart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought a quart of gin for $1.00 (using my commutation ticket as an identification), and left. The gin was palatable but weak. It was intoxicating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

service. What was being drunk was suggested by the central figure of the advertisement (see cut) - a steward carrying his tray with a dark quart bottle, glass and seltzer siphon. No U. S.-bound traveler in Paris could discriminate against the U. S. Lines because of Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet Line | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

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