Word: invents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States, they are so young. That is why. My people for thousands of years have been getting culture. In America, you still got to invent it. In Greece, we got lots of culture already...
...first editions of children's books, reasonably good at fashionable sports and lives in the smallest house (living room, bedroom, bath) in Beverly Hills. Afflicted by chronic insomnia and aware that she will not be able to sleep until dawn, she employs every decorous reason she can invent to detain guests. In Rendezvous, she had three duplicates of all dresses and shoes to avoid delays for wardrobe replacements. Transatlantic Tunnel (Gaumont-British) exhibits the British cinema industry, long noted for its delvings into history, hopefully examining the future. Suggested by the speech in which Stanley Baldwin declared that...
...practices of the Stock Exchange is eminently desirable. So far, under the able direction of Mr. Kennedy, the present law has filled the bill and been approved even by the business men themselves. Surely, now that the breathing spell has arrived, a lawyer as ingenious as Mr. Landis can invent a law which will apply only to dishonesty, and at the same time be octopus-tight. Otherwise, while we thank God and Mr. Roosevelt for fair and paternal despots such as Mr. Landis, we must at the same time, as honest liberals, condemn Mr. Landis' part in drawing...
...manages the activities of practically all the other ductless glands. One of the pituitary's hormones, Professor Loeb found, specifically excites the thyroid and causes the eyes of a victim of Graves's Disease to bulge. With the specific hormone known, endocrinologists at once set themselves to invent ways of restraining its influence...
...Brothers Rust were born on a Texas farm, orphaned in boyhood. They picked cotton. John swore that some day he would invent a cotton-picker to eliminate that back-breaking toil. He learned engineering and drafting from correspondence courses. Because he remembered that his grandmother moistened her spinning wheel to make cotton stick to it, the idea occurred to him to try a smooth, wet spindle on a mechanical picker. Soon he was joined by Brother Mack, who had graduated from the University of Texas and gone to work for General Electric Co. in Schenectady. Their first machines were tried...