Word: invented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago bravely set forth to persuade other case-hardened oil operators of his state to pinch down their oil production and thus conserve their underground pools for the future (TIME, May 23), last week gave up. He ceased arguing and appealed to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to invent some sort of rule to restrain the present overabundant production. There does exist an old Oklahoma law that may apply to the situation. But lawyers doubt its constitutionality. Meanwhile, Shell Union Oil Co., after spending $100,000 to drill a well down 6,000 feet near Marshall, Logan County, Okla...
...devised a discipline, published last week, of fining each school child five cents for each "ain't," "he don't," double negative, etc. The punishment of the child is thus visited upon the parents. One small boy ran up a bill of 40c, obliging his mother to invent eight errands for him to run at a nickel per errand...
Vague clamorings are being heard of an art that insists it is the music of the age. It appears a freakish thing, unusual in sound as well as in mechanics. Once in a great while, a man will invent an instrument for the sake of expressing an idea better than it could be expressed in any other medium. Such an invention was the foot pedal that made Chopin's genius possible...
Draft. "Mrs. Houston remarked that we seemed to be making many mistakes; a French officer rejoined that we did not invent any; the Allies had anticipated...
This play which was developed at Harvard was the product of the mind of Lauren F. Deland who put it into play with the Harvard team of 1892. Deland who was not a college graduate, but a leading advertising expert in the East, made it his avocation to invent new methods of carrying out football plays or war tactics or in getting up time saving devices in everyday life...