Word: jeffreys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sunday, April 22, he was rushed to the Jeffrey Hale hospital, Quebec; word was flashed to New York. The New York World and the North American Newspaper Alliance, sponsors of the flight, immediately telephoned Dr. William H. Delaney, superintendent of the hospital, suggesting a consultation, which was gratefully accepted. Dr. Alvan L. Barach, assistant physician at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, was sent up as consultant, arriving in Quebec with his special apparatus and two tanks of compressed oxygen, Monday, April 23. Bennett's condition was very grave. A large part of the left lung was already involved...
...Origin of the Earth according to Jeans and Jeffrey," Professor Mather, Geological Lecture Room...
...Origin of the Earth according to Jeans and Jeffrey," Professor Mather, Geological Lecture Room...
...desk being set up in his chambers after some journey, it reminded him of an interminable effort. He had never, on any occasion, been content when he began writing on it, he had never been honestly satisfied when he pushed back his chair and left it. But John Jeffrey, his valet, seemed to admire its neat construction; he kept Byron's shaving apparatus neatly tucked away in a hidden compartment which could be opened only by pulling a certain brass bolt...
...John Jeffrey wrote this letter to one Dr. Hayes: "The writing desk I have just sold you was formerly the property of Lord Byron and was used by him when he wrote Don Juan. This fact I know. . . ." In 1890 one William Warren, a London journalist, offered it to the Chicago World's Fair for $25. After the World's Fair, the desk was purchased by a Swiss clockmaker named Uhry, living in Chicago...