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For sprains and swellings, one pint of cider vinegar and half a pint of spirits of turpentine added to three well beaten eggs was said to give speedy relief.
It is often stated that a unit of alcohol is supplied by a small glass of wine, half a pint of beer, or a single measure of spirits.
* Stronger beer ( 6 %- 12 %) may contain as much as 2 units per half pint.
They all received the same diet but, in addition, group one was given a quart of cider daily, group two twenty-five drops of elixir of vitriol ( sulfuric acid ), group three six spoonfuls of vinegar, group four half a pint of seawater, group five received two oranges and one lemon, and the last group a spicy paste plus a drink of barley water.
A popular drink in the West Midlands, " Brown and Mild " is a mix of half a pint of mild and a bottle of Brown Ale in a pint glass.
In the North West of England a mixture of half a pint of mild and half a pint of bitter is known as a " mixed ".
Each monk is allowed a pound of bread and a hemina ( probably about half a pint ) of wine.
Mrs Waters ' The Cook's Decameron suggests the following recipe: the sauce is made by placing three-quarters of a pint of white sauce into a saucepan, and when it is nearly boiling, adding half a cup of concentrated fowl stock.
In 1940, a national milk scheme was launched which provided a pint of milk at about half price for all children under the age of five, and for expectant or nursing mothers.
In Britain, " cider " always means an alcoholic drink of fermented apple juice and is served by the pint or half pint like beer.
His catchphrase is " I'll have a half ", in reference to a half pint of beer.
When Joseph Priestley was at college at Daventry Academy 1752 – 1755, he records that, during the morning of Wednesday 22 May 1754, he “ went with a large company to drink whey .” This was probably ‘ sack whey ’ or ‘ wine whey .’ A contemporary recipe for ‘ wine whey ’ instructs: “ Put a pint of skimmed milk, and half a pint of white wine into a basin, let it stand a few minutes, then pour over it a pint of boiling water, let it stand a little, and the curd will gather in a lump, and settle to the bottom, then pour your whey into a China bowl, and put in a lump of sugar, a sprig of balm, or a slice of lemon .”
The pint ( abbreviated as " pt " or " p ") is a unit of volume or capacity that was once used across much of Europe with values varying from state to state from less than half a litre to over one litre.
It is a very common thing to do to go " de tapas " or " tapear " i. e. to go for a few drinks (" un corto ", which is a very small beer, " una caña ", which is roughly half a pint of beer or " un vino ", a glass of wine ) just before lunch but more normally as a light form of dinner.
Following Britain's conquest of Jamaica in 1655, a half pint or " 2 gills " of rum gradually replaced beer and brandy as the drink of choice.

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The Late Roman army ( 284 – 476 and its continuation, in the surviving eastern half of the empire, as the East Roman army to 641 ).
Woodfull recorded his career best score of 284, compiled in five and a half hours of batting, during a brief tour to New Zealand as part of an Australian XI at the end of the season.
It served as Penn State's stadium until 1960, when the entire 30, 000 seat stadium was dismantled and moved to the east end of campus, reassembled and expanded to 46, 284 seats -- the lower half of the current facility -- and dubbed Beaver Stadium.

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* A half litre ( 500 ml ) of standard lager or ale ( 5 %) contains 2. 5 units.
Giving 2 mg oral lorazepam will result in a peak total serum level of around 20 ng / ml around two hours later, half of which is lorazepam, half its inactive metabolite, lorazepam-glucuronide.
The first time it was tasted officially was 19th December 1854. It is sold in four size variants 180 ml ( quarter / Nip ), 350 ml ( half / Pint ), 750 ml ( full ), and a 1 liter bottle.
It typically has about 60 – 90 ml ( 2 – 3 fl oz ) capacity — half the size of a full coffee cup ( a tasse à café is about 120 ml ( 4 fl oz )).
As with most other premium grade dessert wines, Trockenbeerenauslese is to a large extent sold in half bottles of 375 ml.
) In contemporary SA pubs and restaurants, the most frequent measure is now the up-sized " schooner " of 285 ml, ( an " imperial half pint "), while " imperial pints " are also popular, particularly in bohemian, artistic and " theme " venues such as " British " and " Irish " pubs.

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A nuclear pacifier of these dimensions -- roughly some six and a half times bigger than anything the United States has triggered experimentally -- would certainly produce a bigger bang, and, just for kicks, Khrushchev might use it to propel the seminar of the house of delegates from St. Louis to the moon, where there wouldn't even be any beer to drink.
According to the Regulations and Instructions relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea, which had been published for the first time in 1733 by the Admiralty, sailors were entitled to a gallon of weak beer daily ( 5 / 6 of the usual British gallon, equivalent to the modern American gallon or slightly more than three and a half litres ).
Baltic porter was introduced from Britain in the 18th century as a top-fermenting beer and remained so until the second half of the 19th century when many breweries began to brew their porter with a lager yeast.
At times, over half of the brewery's output is directed overseas to the U. S. In 2010, more than 640, 000 hectolitres of the beer were sold in the United States, more than double the 2001 total.
Three Lenape sold the land that was to become Hoboken ( and part of Jersey City ) for 80 fathoms ( 146 m ) of wampum, 20 fathoms ( 37 m ) of cloth, 12 kettles, six guns, two blankets, one double kettle and half a barrel of beer.
The boundaries of the purchase are described in the deed preserved in the New York State Archives, as well as the medium of exchange: " 80 fathoms of wampum, 20 fathoms of cloth, 12 brass kettles, 6 guns, one double brass kettle, 2 blankets, and one half barrel of strong beer.
It was a year and a half before he drank alcohol again, and reverted only to beer, eschewing spirits.
Soon Molson ’ s beer was in such demand that according to one of his diary entries " Cannot serve half my customers and they are increasing every day.
The whiskey, 100 gallons of home brew mash, and three half barrels of beer were in the cellar.
Probably half the American men avoided saloons, so the average consumption for actual patrons was about a half-gallon of beer per day, six days a week.
* " A half ", a half pint of an alcoholic beverage, typically beer, ale and similar.
It never became particularly popular in the first half of the twentieth century, when the most popular beer was bottom-fermented, just as in the rest of Germany.
The modern US beer barrel is 31 US gallons ( 116. 34777 litres ), half a gallon less than the traditional wine barrel.
Known colloquially as the " beer keg " or " kegger " manifold, the part was shaped like half of a beer barrel lying longitudinally atop the center of the V-shaped engine block.

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He half woke and rolled over with his face in the cooler grass.
In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.
He is a parent with a child to nurture, here and now, and he is an educator who worries about the children half way round the world.
Gaunt scaffoldings adjoined the ruins, and on the ground segments of columns two and a half to three feet in thickness were being fitted with sections cunningly chiseled to match exactly the fluting and proportion of the original.
When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.
The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.
That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.
The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.
but Cousin Simmons said he had watched them marching west early in the morning, and moving at a much brisker pace it had still taken half an hour for their column to pass, what with the narrowness of the road and their baggage and ammunition carts.
We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.
A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.
Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.
I would expect that sales at retail in the first half of 1961 might be below 1960 by some 10 - 15% but that second-half levels should show a favorable comparison, with a possibility of quite strong demand late in the year if business conditions recover as some recent forecasts suggest they will.
Remove about half the branches from each plant, leaving only the strongest with the largest buds.
-- After 52 rainless days, moisture finally came to Del Mar, resulting in but one workout during the week for most of the horses, and leaving us with less than half our total average rainfall during the season.
Fry in butter a small minced onion, rub with a tablespoonful of flour, add half a cup of cream, six beaten eggs, pepper, celery salt, a teaspoonful of minced chives, a dash of cayenne, and a pinch of nutmeg.
put into a saucepan a cupful of the baked ham gravy, or of the boiled ham liquor, with a half stick of butter, three teaspoonfuls of made mustard, and two mashed garlic cloves.
One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.
Another method of assuring a clean hole is to first drill a small pilot hole all the way through, then drill half way with the dimensional bit, turn the piece over, and finish from the other side.
In this organization, about half of the engineers with 15 or more years of employment are in supervision, engineering or elsewhere.
Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead ' ''!!
In addition to other treatments, treating the sections with normal sheep serum for half an hour before layering Af did not reduce nonspecific staining.

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