Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...peculiarities of our censorship are often laughed at, but sometimes articles and announcements are published that do positive harm, whether they are true or not. There have been featured very frequently remarks of inventors who claim they have a machine to end the war in a month or so. The story is put on the front page with a long if not prominent list of men who are backing the invention. We can all remember the famous discovery that was to end the submarine peril in a few months, but the average is as high as ever. Other miraculous...
...earlier printers. He reached the height of his art in 1501 when he printed editions of Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Martial. Of the edition of Virgil only a few defective copies remain. It is impossible to find even a nearly perfect volume. Aldus also was the inventor of italics...
...Maxim is the inventor of "maxi-mite" and of numerous other explosives and ordnance improvements. He is at present heavily interested in this work. Is there no connection between this fact and the free distribution of a work, the sole purpose of which is to advise a radical increase in military equipment? Is it significant that this book, prepared and distributed at great expense to the author, should contain in its first chapter a vigorous and lengthy assertion that "private manufacturers of war materials should be encouraged by the government"? If Mr. Maxim's motives are above question...
Thomas A. Edison has offered a prize of $100 to any Harvard student for the best moving picture scenario. When inaugurating the contest, the inventor also offered to bup any scenarios which were suitable for production but which did not win the prize. Scenarios entered in the competition should be submitted to the donor of the prize...
...three trophies, the property of the late F. W. Thayer '78, captain of three University baseball teams and inventor of the baseball mask, has been presented to the Varsity Club. The collection includes a large silyer loving cup, a silver baseball, and mask. All were presented to Mr. Thayer by his team-mates on the baseball nines of 1876, 1877, and 1878, the three years during which he was captain. The trophies have been placed in a case and are on display in the living room of the Varsity Club...