Word: inventing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspect that is more the fault of O'Neill than of the present director. Mr. Heffron's real failing is a ragged second act that not only seems never to end, but shows no intention of trying. Had Mr. Heffron exerted his right here to cut the script and invent some business for the apparently rooted actors, he would have done real service...
Whisky is one of the few improvements on nature which the vodka-drinking Russians forgot to invent. It came, the Russians say, from medieval Ireland, where "it was known as uskvebak, which means 'water of life...
Like most Americans, Engineer Hans Goldschmidt knew that one of the quickest ways to make a fortune is to invent a new gadget or machine. Unlike most Americans, who never get beyond the daydreaming stage, Goldschmidt made his daydream come true. His invention: a home power tool that could be used as a lathe, vertical and horizontal drill, sander, saw-and do almost anything else needed for woodworking. Last week Goldschmidt's streamlined new model of the "Shop-smith," the do-it-yourself boom's most versatile power tool, went on display at a do-it-yourself exhibition...
Farewell to Chiseling. German-born Hans Goldschmidt, who earned his doctor's degree in administrative engineering at the University of Berlin, set out in 1945 to invent the machine that would make his fortune. He was earning good pay as a time-study man at the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond. Calif., but he expected the job to fold after war's end, and he did not want to go back to chiseling out a bare living in a one-man woodwork shop, as he had done in his first few years in the U.S. Recalling a newspaper article...
...idea of three condemned men who are better than most of their unimprisoned associate and who arrange fate according to an optimum standard of justice is amusing at least for a time. It provides the convicts with an opportunity to invent a variety of tricks, including mock trials and frivolous discussions of good and evil, in their efforts to save the Ducotels. Slezak, bouncing about the stage in a care-free, self-assured style, is the real mastermind of the group. A superb comedian, he makes gimmicks which might have grown stale seem fresh throughout...