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Although Harvey was not able to dish the ball off to a teammate like Bird in '87, Boyd fouled him with 3.7 seconds left in the game. Unfortunately for Dartmouth, free throws are Harvey's bread-and-butter...
...argument in this case, when other justices were scrupulously referred to as "Your Honor," Quince was at one point addressed as "Ma'am.') Harry Lee Anstead, who is white, was raised by a single mother in a housing project. R. Fred Lewis, a native of West Virginia, keeps a dish of coal dust on his desk to remind him of his family's coal-mining origins. Barbara J. Pariente, who is Jewish, was raised in an affluent New Jersey suburb by parents who did not attend college. "Although I had the benefits of my father working very hard," she once...
Accidents happen: aniline dye falls into a 19th century German researcher's petri dish that contains a bacterial culture, revealing that it preferentially stains and kills certain bacteria. The discovery eventually makes chemotherapy possible...
Serendipity intervenes: in the London summer of 1928, an open window in a hospital lab lets in a spore that settles on a staphylococcus-culture dish left unwashed. A mold grows and contaminates the staphylococcus. The lab user returns. Because he's bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, and because his lab has not been cleaned, penicillin is discovered...
...prominent Alabama political family--her grandfather and uncle were U.S. Senators; her father, William Brockman Bankhead, served as Speaker of the House. After winning a beauty contest at age 15, Tallulah Bankhead moved to New York City, where she became an actress, as well as an attractive side dish at the Algonquin Round Table. She created some legendary stage roles--Regina in The Little Foxes, Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth--though Hollywood never really took to her (Hitchcock used her best in Lifeboat...