Word: quart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being tense, Cleveland's most wretched citizens were undoubtedly very hungry. One destitute mother of seven children who was expecting an eighth fed her family through neighbors' aid. The menu: breakfast, bread and tea; lunch, spaghetti and bread; dinner, bread and salmon. The children shared a quart of milk. A 76-year-old woman who said she had not had a square meal for six days waited from 5 to 8 a. m., for a relief station to open its doors. Another fainted, was taken to a hospital for treatment, then released. A Mrs. Florence Barindt had received...
...float in the air, too small to be seen by the naked eye. By a process still kept secret, he isolated mushroom spores in little bottles where they developed into spawn in a mixture of sifted manure. Nowadays the Jacob laboratories sell these whitish-brown lumps for 50? a quart ready for planting. The Jacob plant gets most of its manure which must be from "horses which are working hard and fed with grain and mixed feeds only," from Philadelphia and Baltimore, pays about $6.50 per ton, uses 20,000 tons a year. Buying the manure is a serious problem...
...made no secret of his feeling that men should not swear when ladies were present. For strength, John Montague was marvelous. When a friend had a blowout, he held the rear end of the car up while he changed the tire. John Montague could drink whiskey by the quart but no one ever saw him drunk. Finally, he was a prodigious golfer...
...quarts of air there is one quart of krypton. An inert gas discovered in 1898 by Ramsay and Travers, krypton is scarcer and less volatile than argon, neon and xenon; its name means "the hidden one." In the U. S., small quantities of krypton have been obtained by Linde Air Products Co. and Air Reduction Co. during the fractional distillation (selective boiling) of liquid air, and sold to academic laboratories for $100 a litre if pure, $15 a litre if mixed. Argon or nitrogen at low pressure are the usual fillers for electric tamp bulbs manufactured...
...With a quart of milk and a cigarette...