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...custom of describing symptoms and treatment in verse persisted until books were common; tests in verse were easy to remember. Some 12th-Century medical advice from Italy's School of Salerno...
...Department: a plastic artificial eye which, besides being unbreakable, has been found by the Army to be superior in many ways to the best custom-made glass eyes. Carefully made to duplicate a patient's natural eye shape and coloring, the plastic eye is lighter than glass, fits better, can be moved by the eye muscles, costs less than $5 (against $300 for a custom-made glass...
...made occasional silly statements. But what Cabinet officer, he asked, is innocent on these counts? He added: "Unpleasant as it is to say, apparently the basic reason for the long, sustained campaign against her is that she is a woman." Then looking gloomily ahead, as is his custom, Columnist Kent pinned a final decoration on Cabinet Member Perkins: "We could do a lot worse-and probably will...
...state.* But in New York, as in most legislatures, there are ways of eking out such a meager sum. For years, the men in Albany's hideous State Capitol have voted themselves and their friends odd petty sums "in lieu of detailed itemized expenditures." In time this custom came to be known to legislators and correspondents as "the wonderful lulu system...
Johnson continually asks advice about his work, never asks it about his private life, which appears to be as conservative as his custom of keeping his car keys safety-pinned inside the breast pocket of his coat. He invariably falls for every girl he plays opposite, and would like to marry and settle down. But childhood with a divorced father and his serious attitude about his career have combined to make him cautious about women. He likes his drinks straight when work will permit but enjoys, more than anything else, watching movies. He was so dissolved by Going...