Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...putting it in the vault here." Some one trying to confirm the gold report learned: "It's tea all right. There are three restaurants in the building. Much food comes in here." Wall Street oldsters recalled the legend that John Pierpont Morgan the Elder, a great tea-drinker, had once sipped some particularly fine tea in a London office, had been told that the tea was privately grown on an Island owned by a Chinese. Next morning he had ordered an agent to buy the island. As long as he lived he always gave his own tea as Christmas...
...Ninety per cent, she found, were intoxicated by beer which Congress may legalize again. With logical reasoning one infers that if everyone, including the innocent children, must drink several gallons a week, since the mathematical odds favor the capacity of the saloon habitue as compared to the post-war drinker, more than ninety per cent of the people would be drunk every week. Continuing in this vein, if only about ten per cent were left to manufacture the beer, it is doubtful if they could supply the consumers. The belligerent beer drinkers might revolt; they might even try manufacturing their...
...always voted Dry, now stands for Resubmission. He has never been a heavy drinker...
Your recent editorial on the drinker Respirator suit failed to make wholly clear the principal point oat issue. The question is whether universities shall allow their professors to use for private gain scientific and medical discoveries made under the university auspices, on tax-free premises. The problem is of wise importance, for it confronts not Harvard alone, but all the great universities and research foundations of the country...
...striking example of the public injury that can arise from the policy mentioned above, of allowing university instructors to monopolize discoveries for their private gain. If Collins wins the suit, the public may be deprived of a life-saving apparatus considered by competent authorities to be better than the "Drinker Respirator" and selling at a price $500.00 lower. It is because the case is so clear as a test of the principles involved that it is attracting wide attention. David L. Garrison...