Word: invents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the story, you can print anything in our rag that you so desire just so long as you don't make up anything more that will get me in trouble with the law. I'm as good a scape-goat as any, and you can probably invent some pretty fine stories. Send the clippings to me when you print them for my scrapbook if you would be so kind. I would like you to print this letter if you want to but print it in its entirely and don't, please, add any little inventions of your...
...decade later young Sam Colt ran away from home and, aboard a ship bound for India, whittled the wooden model of a pistol that was to become the great Colt revolver. Sam did not (by 200 years) invent the revolver, but when he got into production he extended Whitney's interchangeable-part system in the direction of the present-day assembly line...
...Scars. Old (85), rich Charles Pathé, now in retirement at Monte Carlo, had hatched the bird back in 1897. "I did not invent the cinema," he once said, "but I industrialized it." On money made from selling the first Edison Kinetoscopes (the original peephole movie), he launched into making film, cameras and movies on his own, bought and built theaters, pioneered newsreels and the first amateur movies...
Tolstoy edited and published a household magazine, wrote a play for the family, and once, during his courtship, even an opera ("You have to invent [the words] yourselves," he told the household gravely: "only see ... that they sound Italian, and, most important, that nobody understands them"). He loved his school, where he personally taught the children of his farm hands; but most other forms of "progress" horrified him-e.g., the novelty of using kerosene in lamps instead of good old fat, the creation of a Russian parliament ("perfectly absurd"), colleges and careers for women (except where "help is needed...
...Yutang, who not only wrote Importance of Living but managed to invent a Chinese typewriter, was chosen by UNESCO as just the man to head its Arts & Letters section...