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...hinged on the interpretation of an "and/or." Usually the decision has gone against the drafter who slipped that literary whatnot into his contract. An early instance is a case decided in a British court on Feb. 8, 1855. A shipper named Gumming had accepted from a ship owner named Cuthbert a contract to provide one complete cargo of "sugar, molasses and/or other lawful products...
After Shipper Gumming had loaded on every puncheon of sugar and molasses the ship would hold, some odd space remained. He left it empty. Owner Cuthbert claimed he should have filled it with "other lawful products," brought suit for ?139, 8s., 3 d. damages. The trial judge ruled that the ambiguous "and/or" in Owner Cuthbert's contract had rightfully entitled Shipper Cumming to do as he pleased about odd space...
...second time in the Institute's history no artists were on the jury of award. Four museum directors-Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens of Pittsburgh, Robert Bartholow Harshe of Chicago, Cuthbert Powell Minnigerode of Washington, Meyric R. Rogers of St. Louis-distributed $3,300 in prizes, as usual had their decisions loudly challenged by art critics...
Human proof of an effective antidote for cyanide poisoning was working as an orderly in a San Francisco county hospital last week. Cuthbert Reiveley, 24, onetime medical student at the University of Michigan, drank about 15 grains of potassium of cyanide in a tumbler half full of water, at once told some friends, fell unconscious. They rushed him to an emergency hospital where Dr. Raymund Joseph Millzner was presiding. Dr. Millzner judged from Cuthbert Reiveley's blue lips and fingernails what had happened, washed out the patient's stomach with a solution of baking soda. Sure enough...
Thereupon Dr. Millzner did what theretofore' had never been done to a human being. He injected 50 c.c. of a sterile aqueous 1% solution of methylene blue into one of Cuthbert Reiveley's veins. In five minutes the moribund young man revived. Ten minutes later he wrote down, at Dr. Millzner's suggestion, his experiences: "There wasn't any sensation other than a numbness starting at the extremities and gradually, without pain, spreading. The sensation was really quite pleasant-no pain and no muscular rigidity in going under." After he received the methylene blue injection "there...