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...eager, warmhearted Canadian Dr. William Osier flipped a coin, to decide whether he should leave McGill University in Montreal to teach clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. It fell "heads"; he left...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes did not "coin the word anesthesia." He suggested the word "anesthesia" and indicated in his letter the origin of this word and its definition...
...Gallup Polls-played a new nickel-in-the-slot game. It had several names (Keeney, Sky Fighter, Sky Pilot), but the fun of all was to aim an imitation machine gun, pull a trigger, try to shoot down a darting, fugitive image of an airplane. "No wonder players insert coin after coin-" exulted International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc., in a broadside extolling its Sky Fighter. "It's that 'trigger-finger' itch that everyone...
Having met Mr. Paul many times at the offices of Random House, our mutual publishers, I can also state that he is not as barrel-shaped as his pictures show. He is really a small man-who, if you must coin an image around, would be keg-shaped...
...capital as happily as his Rip van Winkle had taken to the little Dutchmen's supernatural liquor. One of his dashing hostesses was the Duchess of Benavente, who hated parsimony. On one occasion when the French Ambassador held up one of her card games to look for a coin he had dropped, the Duchess solicitously lit a handful of bank notes to give him light...