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...argument that the copyright should afford as much protection to the writer as the patent does to the inventor, is too cogent to be disregarded. The time has passed when international piracy was an unrebuked occurrence in the publishing world. Today, objections to so simple and natural a change are seldom from disinterested sources. Protection of his rights is a duty which society owes to the writer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN | 2/4/1932 | See Source »

...long implements from behind an iron shield, pried the lid open. They found the box packed full of small white tablets. Next day Claudius Hart Huston, onetime G. O. P. chairman, revealed that he had sent the tablets?a new form of concentrated heat?on behalf of an inventor friend who wanted an opinion on their marketability from encyclopedic Julius Klein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...learned & observant electrician & founder of General Electric Co., Dr. Elihu Thomson, 78, inventor of electric welding and more than 700 other patented ideas, onetime acting president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an unusually practical man, last week proposed to decoy male mosquitoes to a multitudinous death. The idea developed in this fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mosquito Betrayer | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Died. Sir William Mills, 75, inventor of the hand grenade, 75 millions of which were supplied to the Allied armies during the War; of heart disease; in Weston-super-Mare, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 18, 1932 | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...himself into his story he is apt to surprise you. Apparently he has a penchant for duels, has fought two, tried to fight two more (the latest only last year, with "a French man of letters who had said injurious things about Henry James"). He claims to be the inventor of the famed spinach joke, gives his original version: "An absent-minded man took a lady in to dinner. Soles were handed around and he took one with his fingers. Seeing the lady look surprised he said: 'Oh, I thought it was spinach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Jan. 18, 1932 | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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