Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always deservedly--and in this instance they cannot be held responsible for a minute knowledge of some one-hundred odd course syllabi. The other source of knowledge from which the whole college drinks equally long and deeply is the well of common report, whose waters reveal to the drinker reflections soon through another's eyes, each one different...
...fatal charm. He knows a lot about animals, rides like a centaur, drives like a state policeman. He did his bit in the War ("We had slept with our windows open that hard winter and had had only one blanket apiece"). And he is almost as hard a drinker as a Dashiell Hammett hero. It is small wonder that Julie falls in love with him at sight. Conscious of the fact that she is "not a lady," that she has a far-off husband with whom she does not get along, a precarious job as a style-illustrator, she begins...
Offering itself as the last stand of the College beer-drinker, the Eliot House night lunch has increased its open hours. From noon to midnight, the portals will stand wide to any member of the University...
...University recognized that the public was not benefiting from the Drinker machine to as great an extent as desired because the price was prohibitive and to prevent similar situations from arising passed rules forbidding the patenting of any invention that may affect the health of individuals or the public unless the patent be taken in the name of the University. It is on these ethical grounds and also on the existence of similar machines since 1876 that Emerson will base his defense...
Several years ago Drinker developed a respirator in the University laboratories at the request of the New York Consolidated Gas Company and sold the patent rights to it to the Collins Company, which in return paid Drinker a royalty of between two and three hundred dollars on each machine. Emerson found it was possible to build machines using somewhat the same principle and allegedly more efficient at a price of several hundred dollars less than the Collins Company. Suit was then brought against Emerson for patent infringements but action has been postponed sevveral times...