Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Digging out an eleven-year-old copy of the Saturday Review of Literature, the syndicate found that Canby had indeed lauded the "homely genius" of Peg's style, had even called him "that most hard-hitting and expressive of contemporary American journalists," and had gone on to quote two paragraphs from a Pegler column. The syndicate promptly slapped Canby's encomium into its ad. Just as promptly, Canby objected: "This [article] has been quoted without my permission and without the permission of the Saturday Review, where it is copyrighted...
...valuable to humanity than all the oil in Oklahoma," Fleming could hear the thudding accompaniment of a pumping well on nearby state land. Researcher Fleming had a word for the foundation's governors. It was up to them, he said, "to create the free atmosphere which will allow genius full play . . . Much in the future of humanity depends on the freedom of the researcher to pursue his own line of thought. Fundamental research thrives on free enterprise, and wilts and withers under too many controls...
Another unsung Russian genius named Glinkov "considerably forestalled" Briton James Hargreaves in inventing the flaxspinning loom. Dr. N. I. Lunin of Dorpat discovered vitamins. Professor Kataev constructed the world's first electronic television transmitter. In 1801, the self-taught genius of the Urals, Artomonov, built the first bicycle in the world's history, then pedaled the 1,000 miles from Nizhny Tagil to Moscow to prove...
...Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius...
...sale of stock and dealer franchises for his Torpedo 8. The grand jury merely totted up Tucker's statements and labeled each one "false." Said the jury: Tucker & Associates, "seeking to capitalize on the unusual consumer demand" for autos, falsely "represented [Tucker] as an automotive inventor and designing genius" and obtained money "for [their own] personal benefit and profit" by "payments of excessive salaries and expense accounts to themselves, by the creation of fictitious experimental and development projects...