Word: brainchild
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard Hughes, out of the hospital five weeks after the crash of his experimental plane, took with him a brainchild that had come in handy. The multimillionaire plane designer now had a super-adjustable hospital bed with six adjustable sections and six cranks...
...Yutang had finally realized his ambition and dream-a "practical" Chinese typewriter. Soon to be marketed was his long-gestated brainchild, a 64-key affair with "a theoretical total of 90,000 characters,† including . . . many new, weird combinations." Declared best-selling Lin happily: the machine was "adequate for all commercial and literary purposes...
Relegated (and reconciled, perforce) to a desk job in Washington, B.C., because of substandard eyesight, he found expression in this brainchild which he designed on V-J day holiday morning as a shoulder patch for himself and fellow officers to wear, he says, in American Legion parades...
...School for Town and Country Ministers" was the twin brainchild of Dean Henry Burton Trimble of Emory's Candler School of Theology, and of the school's Field Work Director Emmett...
...Plan. This vast scheme is the brainchild of Bombay multimillionaire J.R.D. Tata (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942) and seven fellow industrialists and associates. Their goal: double India's per capita income, triple her national income. They want Indian industry to quintuple its output, Indian farms to double their produce. Improved housing, education, transportation, communication, health and sanitation figure in the scheme...