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When we met for lunch the other day at Daniel's restaurant in Manhattan, Mitchell looked much younger than his 42 years, and though he was well turned out in suit and tie, I felt he would be much happier on the deck of the Pequod . Twenty-five years ago, Mitchell had a summer job running the launch at Maine's Camden Yacht Club when a yachtsman offered him a job selling wine in a shop he had just opened in a restored 18 th century mill.
Twenty-five of the physicians commemorated were western Europeans or Americans active between 1860 and 1920, years of intensive correlation of bedside and pathological findings, whose names now linger as historical markers.
But in reviewing the works of others, attention must be paid to such materials, and the Bibliography of Selected Sources and Dictionaries Consulted include only twenty-five titles under the former category (plus fifteen of Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey novels) and only ten under the latter, some of which are curious choices indeed: Robert Hunter's Universal Dictionary of the English Language, New York: Collier, 1897, which I have never heard of; Eric Partridge's Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English contains a great many errors and ought to be avoided by serious researchers; the author evidently chose not to wade through Johnson's Dictionary, relying instead on McAdam and Milne's A Modern Selection.
3 Twenty-five years ago, our government made a pledge to help ensure that all persons have access to America's civil justice system by enacting legislation that created Legal Services Corporation.
Bill Maher, in the Rolling Stone "Millennium" issue: "Twenty-five years ago I was 18 and I couldn't get a college girl to go out with me, and today I can."
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