Word: brainchild
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...playwrights did not create the character of Dulcy. Bearing a name taken from Don Quixote, Dulcy was the brainchild of the columnist F.P.A. (Franklin P. Adams) and first came to life on the editorial pages of the New York Tribune. The dramatists then simply took Dulcy and fashioned a play around...
...last week. Colonel De Long's brainchild had grown into $84 million worth of docks, oil rigs and seaborne platforms around the world. Consolidated Edison built one into Manhattan's East River to receive 750 tons of coal per hour for generating electricity. Now De Long is at werk with five other companies on a $21 million contract to lay a five-mile-long sewer outfall into the Pacific off Los Angeles. And the success to date is only a starter. The Coast Guard wants prices on De Long platforms to replace 25 antiquated lightships off U.S. coasts...
...m.p.h. record at Cremona in 1929. But the Sedici Cilindri was a bastard car, with a power plant made of a pair of eight-cylinder engines, the two crankshafts coupled in a single gear box. The new twelve-cylinder Maserati is the precocious, all-in-one brainchild of Engineer Guilio Alfieri. Every part was specifically designed for the new racing...
...Rome leprosy congress was the brainchild of Frenchman Raoul Follereau, a professional charity worker who has devoted nearly half of his life to fighting the taboos associated with leprosy. Follereau, a roundish, energetic man of 52, has traveled 450,000 miles to visit leprosy victims, to convince them that their banishment from society is not condemnation to limbo, to encourage them to take treatments that can and will cure many...
...Ondes Martenot, a less versatile but considerably simpler instrument, is the brainchild of Maurice Martenot, a slight, bespectacled Frenchman with a bumblebee mustache and a practical outlook. The Martenot has been manufactured and sold (190 models at about $700 each), can be mastered in a few months, is already used by the Paris Opera and theaters. It has had 518 compositions written for it, some by such first-rate composers as Honegger and Milhaud. It utilizes a keyboard and a metalized ribbon that produces slithery glissandos, can control color and volume through other accessories, but cannot play chords...