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Nor was that the end. This week the President made ready to ask Congress for a whopping big addition to the funds authorized for Britain and China under the Lend-Lease Act. It was hinted that the sum requested might come to as much as $7,000,000,000. In...
Reprints of medical articles announcing great modern discoveries are as rare and valuable as 15th-Century incunabula. One of the rarest items Mr. Schuman ever handled was a reprint of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's brief essay proving that childbed fever may be caused by filthy obstetricians and hospital...
Once, 40 years ago, two log cuffers named Tom Oliver and Jim Stewart birled for two days (six hours the first day, five the next) before one got a ducking. Nowadays, 15 minutes is a long time to keep dry. A cagey, cat-quick birler is called a Bangor Tiger...
I'm only a poor Presbyterian pastor and none too familiar with Oliver W. Gilpin's Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Frankly I do agree with him that I too prefer to have the President "blessed" rather than merely given "wisdom." We Presbyterians ask that God may "look...
On a Chicago street an elderly man upped to a perfect stranger and said: "Pardon me, may I test your blood?" The indignant citizen calmed down when he discovered who his questioner was: Dr. Oliver Clarence Wenger, top-flight syphilologist in the U.S. Public Health Service. This was the latest...