Word: inventive
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...Edison did not invent the electric lamp (an Englishman named Sir Joseph Swan produced an incandescent lamp in 1860-19 years before Edison...
...doctors George H. Whipple, George R. Minot and William P. Murphy, who got the Nobel Prize in 1934 for their liver cure for anemia, did not invent the cure (it was discovered some 20 years earlier by two Italians, Pietro Castellino and Alfonso Pirera...
Then the depression dumped Marchant and Fridén into deep red ink, finally dumped Fridén right out. He went back to shoestring calculating, determined to invent a competing machine and at the same time avoid any patent fights. In one year flat he had it: with the $27,000 the market crash had left him, plus $25,000 from four California backers, he started the Fridén Calculating Machine...
...class struggle" painters (of whom William Gropper is best known), Kootz says: "Gropper, for instance, has never been able to invent a plastic language of his own. . . . The plain fact of the matter is that the radical pattern of this school is as dull esthetically as the reactionary pattern of the nationalist school. Both schools trade in local incidents, the class-struggle boys bellyaching that nothing is good enough, the nationalists insisting that it was good enough for Pop and it is good enough for them. . . . Slice it any way you want and it still comes out a literary tract...
Frolic is produced in "circumstances that would paralyze most radio performers. Gentile & Binge invent their patter as they go along. The studio is just across the hall from the elevator, and people constantly pop in to ask the way to the manager's office, the men's room, etc. Some get yanked right into the program. So do many night-shift workers who drop in for laughs in the early morning. President Alexander Grant Ruthven of the University of Michigan, a devoted listener, once asked the boys to find a horse which had strayed from his stable. They...