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...invoking Trotsky as a conspirator against himself, Stalin can conveniently bump off such Old Bolsheviks in Russia as do actually get in his way from time to time, so much to the good. If there were no Trotsky, or if Trotsky should be assassinated, the Ogpu would have to invent another Trotsky to serve purposes not wholly different from those served in England by what is called "His Majesty's Loyal Opposition...
Legacy. Nobody denies George Norris his full credit for winning a unicameral Legislature to his State, but he did not invent the idea. Three of the original 13 States-Pennsylvania, Vermont, Georgia -in their first constitutions adopted during the Revolution, created one-house Legislatures. Each was coupled with a council or board of censors which acted more or less as a separate house and generally complicated politics. Georgia kept the arrangement for 12 years, Pennsylvania for 14, Vermont until 1836. But the example of the British Parliament and later the U. S. Constitution, with two houses, one more or less...
Descended from a family of early Massachusetts settlers, William Austin Burt was a surveyor, mechanic and millwright. He lived on a farm near Detroit when he put together his writing-machine, which he called "The Typographer." Noticing that local magnetism frequently disturbed surveying compasses, he invented a sun-compass, was awarded a medal and $20 in gold by the Franklin Institute. Burt returned from a trip to England in a windjammer to see how well its navigator maintained his course, was thus spurred to invent an equatorial sextant. One of two members of Michigan's early Territorial Legislative Council...
...extreme conditions of the mountain top, which low temperatures and high winds combine to make the coldest inhabited spot in the United States, it has been necessary for the observers to invent extremely rugged and specially adapted instruments for their work. Among the most famous of these is a heated anemometer, designed particularly for this station, which once registered a wind velocity of 231 miles per hour, far in excess of any previous measurements...
Thus was sharply drawn a problem between two mutually dependent professions. Doctors must have chemists to invent new drugs; chemists must have doctors to try out new drugs. But should chemists wait until doctors say: "We want a new drug to do so & so. Try to create it"? Or should chemists say: "Here is something new. See what it is good...