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...declaring that no members of the Medical School or the School of Public Health should take out for his own profit a patent upon any invention that affects the health of the public, the University has wisely refused to assume any responsibility for the approaching law-suit in which Drinker will attempt to save his name if not his money...
...into so many words a regulation which for years has been considered one of the unwritten laws of medical ethics is an indication of the tremendous pressure that was brought to bear upon it by the medical world and even the petitions signed at the Medical School. Drinker's performance has once and for all proved that the hands off policy of the University must come to an end, and that the medical code can no longer be left unwritten while a profiteer usurps the profession...
...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...