Word: quart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turn off the hot tap, turn off the cold; Water is precious, scarcer than gold, Remember the supply is very very short, Don't use a gallon when you can use a quart...
...Weissenbach, frankly partisan, denounced the aperitif or cocktail. Said he: "All drinks containing alcohol, even wine, taken before eating are poison." The proper dosage of wine to be taken with meals, he suggested, was about a pint a day for the intellectual worker, a quart for a factory worker, 1½ quarts for a man doing physical work out of doors...
...After experimenting extensively with dogs (whose alcoholic capacity, pound for pound, is about the same as humans'), Dr. Henry W. Newman of Stanford University's medical school concluded that a man can handle a quart of whisky...
...average capacity of an average man--154 pounds, is one quart of hundred proof whiskey, Science Magazine says. If you're heavier you can guzzle a little more...
This doesn't mean that you can get away without any harmful effects drinking one quart a day. A Washington physician says that, on a quart a day, the average person would be a drunken sot; but at least one quart a day won't kill you, science says...