Word: invention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entirely a lark for Tsar Boris and Tsaritsa loanna, most impoverished of European royalties. At all events it has proved a highly popular habit with their subjects. In Sofia again loanna went with Boris to the gold-domed Alexander Nevski Cathedral to honor Saint Cyril who helped to invent the Cyrillic (Modified Greek) alphabet. All in a row before the cathedral stood the Cabinet of the new Premier, Kimon Gueorguieff. Crowds regarded the Cabinet coolly, but a roar like a rolling breaker followed the progress of the Tsar and his Queen from the palace to the cathedral and back again...
Since a University is primarily an institution for the dissemination of knowledge and enlightenment it is fitting that it should make easily accessible by the public information and devices which have bearing on matters of health and therapeutics. Men on the faculty who invent and perfect such devices do so certainly not because they expect to derive profits from their inventions, but because they have a genuine scientific and humanitarian interest in the subject. For a man to invent some therapeutic machine and then patent it so that it can not be duplicated or perfected in indeed to display...
...probably Eugene Schneider and Francois de Wendel are lovable old gentlemen who weep at a Chopin ballade. If an Advance Angel of Judgment should undertake today to quiz the De Wendels of Eugene Schneider on the others of their business they would unquestionably answer; (a) they didn't invent the passions and cupidities that lead to war, (b)if they didn't supply the demand for armaments someone else would, and (c)they inherited the business, anyway...
Obviously Nemesis is right in saying that the stuffed shirts of present day corruption don't mind any verbal formulation that he or I can invent. Neither Nick Butler nor any other sustainer of Monty Norman minds being addressed as venomous serpent or by any other 18th century pejorative, but they run silent from INFORMATION...
...best known living historians of Peter Rabbit, Harrison Cady did not invent the character, is not Peter Rabbit's only illustrator. Peter Rabbit was the brainchild of Beatrix Potter, a gentle English lady skilled in telling stories that children really like, and illustrating them in sly effective watercolors. First published in 1904, Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit books have sold by the hundreds of thousands, are cherished by adults who spurn her imitators. Besides the Tale of Peter Rabbit, other Potter best sellers include: Tale of Benjamin Bunny, Tailor of Gloucester, Tale of Two Bad Mice, Tale...