Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rebates a few dollars to the small doctor who called him into consultation. Fee-splitting in the U. S. "has grown to alarming proportions." It results, stated Dr. Hartwell categorically, "in two evils: 1) the selection by the family physician of a specialist who will pay the rebate, which may readily lead to the employing of a less qualified man than would otherwise be obtained; 2) an increased charge by the specialist to cover the unacknowledged rebate. It is a secret understanding between two professional men which they dare not bring into the open." To such rebuke Dr. Hartwell...
...tired head with its tossing white mane slumped back on the pillow. "Whatever people may think . . . they must feel this is rather rough...
...purpose of the game, offensively, is to knock down with the ball either or both of two loose-balanced wickets which it is the batsman's business to defend. When one of the batsmen knocks the ball away from his wicket, he may exchange places with the other batsman, thus scoring a run. The procedure of scoring does not greatly differ from that used in two-old-cat; but cricket is unique among all games for profound, untechnical and subtle reasons. Its rhythm, the pace at which its climaxes are reached and at which they disappear, is slower than anything...
...Campbell's farms (in Montana) are vast and profitable because he uses machinery almost exclusively for planting, cultivating and harvesting. The Russians want him to put his system to work on 10,000,000 acres of wheat and flax land. His project may lead to the purchase of $100,000,000 worth of U. S. farm machinery. The Russians also want Mr. Campbell to spend three months each year with them. On that invitation he was not determined before he sailed from Manhattan...
Gold, Silver, Jewels. In Manhattan, in 1810, when Fifth Avenue was a woodsy suburb, Messrs. Isaac Marquand and Erastus Barton opened a jewelry shop at No. 166 Broadway. A descendant of this store may be seen today in Palm Beach, in Paris, in Manhattan (on Fifth Avenue). The name is now Black, Starr & Frost. Black, Starr & Frost fashioned the Davis Cup for the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, and for U. S. and European ladies many a rare jewel, notably a $685,000 pink pearl necklace...