Word: inventive
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...invent the airplane," said Tom wrighteously...
...remember with nostalgia the day when experimental rockets were manned by monkeys. Monkeys didn't allow their offspring and spouses to appear on the covers of Life and Look. They didn't invent absurd words and phrases like "A-OK," "All systems go," or "bazoo." They didn't move Congress. They just went up and came down. That's the way it ought...
...newborn son who mutters a last message in a companion's arms. There is also a captive German officer who wistfully admits that he misses his frau and kinder. But despite a liberal complement of platitudes, The Four Days of Naples never really becomes embarrassing. And it does invent many lively and believable ways to thwart Germans--probably the critical test of a movie that never even presumes to squeeze clumsy lessons out of the bestiality...
They held the opinion that the people of America were for the most part poorly informed "because no publication has adapted itself to the time which busy men are able to spend on simply keeping informed," and they decided to invent that publication. To serve their high purpose, they had to sell their invention and make it an operating success. It was not easy. "In order to start TIME, we had to peddle stock to our friends and our friends' friends," Harry Luce recalled last week in the McKinsey Foundation Lecture at Columbia University. "We sold themwhen...
...will serialize, selects series, and then follows the rules he has given himself; to complete the work, he arranges the unserialized variables. The composer in no way abandons his freedom through this procedure, just as a mathematician who axiomatizes a theory in no way loses the ability to invent theorems...