Word: quarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raymond Briez, 29, underwent last week his 101st transfusion by which he gave a quart of his blood to save the life of a fellowman...
Quixotic, M. Briez has given 101 quarts of blood during the past five years without accepting so much as a centime in payment. On one occasion he gave a quart of blood each to three separate patients within 24 hours. Recently he underwent 17 transfusions in 31 days...
...TIME'S information and possible future use in its very interesting and unique presentation of news, . . . you should know that Coughlin and McKenna were contemporary political bosses, keepers of large saloons of the lowest type where one quart schooners of beer or drinks of low grade whiskey were obtainable for 5?, together with a bountiful free lunch. They were equally famed characters in the Chicago of 1890-1900. To a resident of the Windy City in those days a reference to "Bath House John" without mention of "Hinky Dink" is most incomplete...
...Republican Senatorial candidate had been defeated in the primaries. As he added the list of his campaign expenses the thought suddenly came to him that perhaps he had not spent enough. His total was precisely $6.75-the price of a good mashie or a mediocre quart of Scotch. Thereupon, he, Candidate H. N. Midtbo of Donnybrook, N. D., despatched a postal card to the Secretary of the Senate, saying...
...Pasteurized cow's milk costs from 10¢ to 15¢ a quart in most U. S. cities...