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Word: quart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: How Dry I Am | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Quart a Day | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Much Did YOU Guzzle Last Night? | 6/11/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Much Did YOU Guzzle Last Night? | 6/11/1949 | See Source »

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