Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...device is in reality a small microscope, about the size of a pocket flashlight, with a strong lens at one end and a powerful light at the other. A small incision is made directly over the heart, and the cardioscope inserted. It enables the surgeon to see the heart valves, greatly magnified, while the heart is functioning, without injury to the organ. It will be particularly valuable in eases of widening or narrowing of the valves, in which cases the valves are either opened by cutting or are tied with ligatures, says Dr. Howard Lilienthal, of Cornell Medical School...
...Construction " includes building of roads, railroads, houses, industrial plants, docks, sewers, mines, etc.; it is intimately associated with insurance, banking and public policy; it embraces architects, engineers, contractors and all manner of workmen; it directly affects the pocket book of every man from his log-cabin birthplace to his marble mausoleum...
What former President of the United States could have reduced all culture to five feet of shelf room by the mere authority of his name. Mr. Roosevelt's pigskin library has been forgotten for many years, and Mr. Wilson's fourteen pocket pointers have never yet been sold...
...meeting in the station is reported to have taken place shortly before Eastwood picked up the stranger on the highway. At this point he wore a blue coat in addition to the blue trousers and had a green paper bag in his pocket. East wood noticed he had on high white sneakers. The man volunteered the information he was a Harvard student and said "I was tired of studies and wanted to take a day off". He added that he had left Boston early Thursday morning by train and had gotten off at Auburndale, whence he had worked...
...addition to paying its way, and retiring $405,000,000 of debt, the Government may expect to end the fiscal year on June 30 with from $60,000,000 to $125,000,000 of pin money in its pocket...