Word: inventive
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...nature evolved a closed, high-pressure blood-circulating system with conduits of diminishing thickness carrying blood and oxygen to thin-walled capillaries. "But here, nature ran into a snag: the high pressure made the capillaries leaky." Even the large molecules of proteins slip through delicate capillaries. Nature had to invent a collection and drainage system so that whatever Leaked into the tissue spaces around the capillaries could be picked up and put back into circulation in the bloodstream. Nature's solution to the problem was the lymphatic system...
...that it often takes decades for research to translate itself into standard-of-living goods, and right now there is a lull. The man who led the development of the U-2 spy plane, Lockheed Vice President Kelly Johnson, says: "We are not lacking in the capability to invent. Where we have trouble is in the incentive to invent." Raising the Rewards. With much fanfare, corporations have been tinkering for years with breakthrough inventions that, disappointingly, have yet to appear on the market: ultrasonic washers that would clean without water, thermoelectric devices that would use power to produce heat...
...Main Street somehow let their imaginations blossom when they get away from it for the summer. Within the past decade a diversity of new building materials has given the owner of the second house the chance to create new shapes, employ new methods of construction and invent new ways of blending outdoors and indoors...
...strongly influenced John Constable and Washington Allston, and he might have made something special "in the painting way" out of Robert Fulton and Samuel F. B. Morse had not the impulse to invent the steamboat and the telegraph taken priority with them. When he died in 1820, a few weeks after George III, the new King, George IV, wanted to banish all his father's Wests to the lumber room of Windsor Castle. He backed down only when another eminent West student intervened. The man was Sir Thomas Lawrence, who in that same year started his own loving portrait...
Poet Marianne Moore's essay is, predictably, the best of the lot. But it is the nature of Stevens' work that phrases from his poems describe it better than any the critics can invent. Poetry, he said, "must almost resist intelligence." Only Randall Jarrell knows when he's licked: "Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around," he writes in perhaps the book's most apt judgment. Characteristic of Stevens' artful use of assonance and word-echoes to make a little something out of nothing much, is a stanza from...