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Amateur talent will form the remainder of the program. One of the highlights is a "chugalug" contest, to see who can drink a quart of beer the fastest. Several prizes will also be offered in a raffle...
Firemen and student bunkers attempted to extinguish the flames with water, whereupon a quart of hydrochloric said, a half pound of metalic sodium, two and a half pounds of lithium bromide, and five gallons of faming sulfuric acid exploded...
...shoulder. Arizona defeated a local option proposal; Oregon declined to ban the sale of "promotively advertised" liquor; South Dakota ruled it was all right to serve food and liquor in the same establishment; and Arkansas walloped a measure setting up statewide Prohibition, and making possession of more than a quart of liquor a crime...
...with it. Why not, asked Bondi and Gold, figure out how much matter would have to be added to make the galaxies recede at the observed rate? The answer, dragged from thickets of mathematics, came out very simple. One atom of hydrogen, they calculated, must be added to each quart of space every billion years...
...drinking habits of Cornellians, usually not at all immodest, brought them national notoriety last year when an undergraduate, desirous of demonstrating his drinking prowess during the initiation ceremonies of a social fraterity, guzzled a quart of martinis at one throw. Within minutes, the initiate was out and fading. Moved to a hospital, the drinker recovered but he had come close enough to death to cause the university to ban two of the three social fraternities (drinking societies) and impose strict regulations on the third...