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...Britain's heart was stout, but her aim was confused and her economy holding on by the fingernails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Battlefields of Peace | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...pictures over the bar. Proud of its exotic liqueur collection from 52 countries, the prewar O.G. would guarantee a free drink of any brand not found in stock. Although this service has since been stopped, the beer drinker has not been neglected, and the O.G. has all kinds; bock, stout, and a varity in Cambridge, porter in bottles. Porter, by the way, is a weak stout, and is as satisfying to the beer drinker as a gut course is to the gentleman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The O.G.---Exotic Liqueurs, Beer of Every Description | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

...empire, Japanese are rightly inclined to worry about how they will manage to feed a population of 80,000,000, packed into their tight little islands. But last week, when an occupation official asked, in curiosity, whether a Japanese government might encourage birth control in future, he got a stout no. The reason showed how little some Japanese had changed. Explained former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Katsuo Okazaki (while Foreign Minister Hitoshi Ashida nodded in solemn agreement): "Because with birth control, in 20 years we would not have enough young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Long View | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...blear-eyed Friesian cow named Bridge Birch yielded 41,952 pounds of milk in 329 days to displace (unofficially) an American Holstein, Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, as world champion. Bridge Birch's owner admitted that his cow got a daily diet-booster of half a gallon of stout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: Stooges | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...bushy tree . . . with a short and usually crooked trunk . . . stout spreading rigid branches beset with slender spine-like branchlets, bright red and glabrous when they first appear, soon turning green, and in their first winter grey tinged with red, covered with a slight bloom . . . and ultimately dark brown tinged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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