Word: inventer
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...even the most seasoned baseballers in the audience wondered who Casey was. Harvardman (1885) Ernest L. Thayer, who had written the poem for the paper his friend Willie Hearst had recently acquired, declared that no real-life Casey existed. But baseball fans down the decades have had to invent not one but many. Up Boston way, they were sure Casey was King Kelly, the Babe Ruth of the '80s, whom the Boston National League club had bought for the unheard of price of $10,000 from the White Stockings in 1887. Almost every community had its Casey and announced...
...numbers which turned up, but their colors, their positions on the transverse and vertical rows of the betting cloth and various other group affiliations. There was hardly enough time for all this between spins of the wheel (which take place about once every 50 seconds). Prince Loewenstein decided to invent a machine which would record all the necessary factors automatically in one operation...
...does the author, as one reviewer has suggested, always "invent arguments for his opponents that not even the stupidest of them has used." The beauty of Arnold's book is that he quotes freely from Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann, and Westbrook Pegler. Perhaps Arnold does pick the more stupid of their writings, but at a casual glance these excerpts seemed rather typical...
...readers get worse 1) the more they read 2) the more firmly fixed their bad habits become. In his group, only 11% of the adults who had stopped school at the sixth grade could read as well as present-day sixth-graders. The professor thereupon set out to invent improved methods of teaching adults to read. Chief advance over the system of Dr. Stella Center at New York University's reading clinic (TIME, Dec. 6), was the use of a motion picture film that flashes successive phrases on a screen, to guide the eyes along a line of type...
...defined as "a woman with literary tastes or pretensions." As to bloomer (originally the name of a costume consisting of a short skirt and loose trousers gathered around the ankles, later becoming bloomers-), the dictionary says that Mrs. Amelia Bloomer gave it its name, but did not invent it. Explanation: "For some years she edited and published, at Seneca Falls, N. Y., a magazine called The Lily, in which (February, 1851) the new costume appears to have been first mentioned in print...