Here we learn that an abstinence pledge will break the vicious circle of inebriety, dyspepsia and misery.  From Vicious Circles in Sociology and Their Treatment by Jamieson Boyd Hurry, 1915.

P-A-C spells Pac, as in Pac-Man's ancestor from 1880's Mathematical and Physical Papers.

From The Individual Delinquent by William Healy, 1915.

Here's the physics of baseball and the origin of "seeing stars," from Washington and Lee University's Calyx yearbook, 1907.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

We've heard that "no means no," but no actually comes in evolving shapes, as we learn in Lessons in Expression and Physical Drill by Darien A. Straw, 1892.

This old diagram could serve as a spinner for allowing luck to determine how much ice cream to serve oneself.  It's from a wholly different context: Raising P. V. Squabs for Profit by John S. Trecartin, 1920.

You've heard of the "power of suggestion," but did you know that power is exerted via levers?  From Psycho-Therapy in the Practice of Medicine and Surgery by Sheldon Leabitt, 1903.

"The burnous is worn in a multitude of ways," from Mountain Life in Algeria by Edgar Barclay, 1882.

So in 1896 we had already sliced open the sun (to discover its labyrinthine innards), and yet NASA's launch of a solar probe has been pushed back to 2018.  One step forward, two steps back.  From The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Readers, 1896.