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Word: quart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contact between the town and gown. Each night, students drink beer in the booths at the Tally-Ho, which are equipped with intimate green lanterns and a sign that reads "No Stags Or Loiterers." Behind the bar, English tavern scenes appear under glass panes on the wall and quart beer bottles are displayed on the liquor shelves. When a student ambles over from the shuffleboard machine to order a sloe gin fizz, the curiosity shown toward this beverage by the others at the bar may compel him to pass the drink around, but he is repaid by the management with...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Lehigh: Mountain Monolith Of 'Cultured' Engineering | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

...would be doing everyone a favor by pouring an occasional bottle of liquor down the drain. This policy reaches a hilarious climax one night when Amy's father barks at a prim, sleep-dazed old lady babysitter: "You must be stinking, Mrs. Henlein . . . You drank a full quart of gin." When his little girl tries to run away from home, the father, who is always going off on business trips, wonders how he can teach her that home is best and blood is thicker than firewater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crack in the Picture Window | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Spin-Off. In Hillisburg, Ind., Mrs. Burl Carter, operator of a family-owned furniture store, accepted a used living-room set in part payment for a new set, sold the used furniture for three frogs' legs and a quart of gooseberries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Unfortunately, it does not take much of this to turn the hotel clerk into a genuine Hollywood cowboy, and as soon as he gets back to that Chicago hotel, he proceeds to demonstrate his he-manity. Superb in a steaming tub he sits, swigging his quart and sucking his Havana and languidly, when the spirit moves him, blasting away at the roaches on the walls with his trusty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 17, 1958 | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...deliveryman handed over a package, he said knowingly, "Here's another one for the doc." Dr. Meyer A. Perlstein took the package out to the garage, set it on his workbench and stripped the wrappings. With a screwdriver, the doctor pried the top off a shiny new quart can. In it, well preserved by wrappings of formaldehyde-soaked gauze, was a human brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Against Cerebral Palsy | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

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