Word: inventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazines. It can sometimes mean transferring people and equipment to distant places, or, in this year of Olympics, political conventions and elections, of leasing local facilities and supervising the rapid processing of thousands of feet of film. It also means working with suppliers and manufacturers to adapt or even invent processes or equipment. One new machine currently being tested uses a computerized "analyzer" to take most of the guesswork out of printing color negatives, which cannot be read by eye. To shoot space shuttle launches at Cape Canaveral, for which equipment has to be set up days in advance...
These academics, once scorned by modernist taste but now almost as rehabilitated as their pupils, gave new American art its pedigree. At one point Gérôme had 90 American students. As an American critic remarked in 1864, "We have not time to invent and study everything anew. The fast-flying 19th century would laugh us to scorn should we attempt it. No one dreams of it in science, ethics or physics. Why then propose it in art?" It may be that even the most "American" of Eakins' paintings-his rowing scenes on the Schuylkill River...
...HERO," writes Daniel J. Boorstin '34 "is Man the Discoverer." His discoverer-heroes are bold seafarers and careful clockmakers; they are census-takers and historians. Their daring feats to invent clocks and maps and dictionaries that light our way through the night of ignorance...
Bernice R. Sandler, the director of the Project on the Education and Status of Women at the American Association of Colleges, agreed with a number of the book's other general findings harassers tend to be repeat offenders; relatively few women invent or exaggerate charges of sexual harassment; ignoring the attention will not make it go away...
...game took shape on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Montreal in 1979 when two Canadian journalists, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, challenged each other to a game of Scrabble. Then, Haney recalls, a light bulb went on over his head: "Why don't we invent a game?" Less than an hour later they had designed the basic structure. Devising the questions, however, took much obsessive poring over almanacs, encyclopedias and old newspapers. After nearly two years of research, the group, which included Haney's brother John, a retired hockey player, settled on 6,000 queries...