Word: invents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partisan Primo Camera, after killing dozens of Germans, was executed by the Nazis. Last fall, hale & hearty, non-Partisan Camera broadcast over Stern's show. Another time they heard that Abraham Lincoln's dying words, breathed to Colonel Abner Doubleday, inspired him to invent baseball, and that Thomas A. Edison's deafness came about after he was beaned in a ball game by Pitcher Jesse James...
...your second statement, what is especially incorrect about it is that it suggests I want to invent a "new" morality. On the contrary, it is the old morality, the morality of Jesus Christ, that I believe is the sole possible salvation of the world. But I think that it can be given a basis in the laws of human personality...
When the network separated from the CRIMSON in 1946, it changed its name from WHCN--the Crimson Network--to the present code signifying the Harvard Network. Now that the station must make another change, network members must invent another combination...
Navy Contract Number One has gone to Professor Emory L. Chafee for research in electronics. One of Chafee's jobs is to invent new kinds of vacuum tubes--he is now working on one that spins a light wave around a beam of electrons. The two interact to strengthen an electric current...
...second decisive event came when he decided to invent, for use in short stories, a scientific method of crime detection based on the deduction-by-observation habits of Professor Bell. He sketched out a short novel called A Tangled Skein, involving a detective named Sherrinford Holmes and a narrator named Ormond Sacker. Finally, because it sounded better, he changed Sherrinford to Sherlock, and Ormond Sacker to the simpler name of Dr. John Watson. He changed the story's title to A Study in Scarlet. Publishers Ward, Locke & Co. bought it outright (for ?25) and published it in their Christmas...