Word: invents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot foresee the day when he'll be doing play-by-play sportcasts, "until they invent teletype in Braille," but he frankly hopes that his program will interest the networks. His chief worry: that a sudden shower at a game will ruin the perforated dots of his notes, leave him speechless at broadcast time...
...experimenters had to invent a fiendishly ingenious gadget for keeping their rats awake. Cylindrical treadmills revolved slowly in cells half full of water. If the rat did not keep awake, he got dunked and had to scramble back...
...story of mankind. As achievements in gentle claptrap these sections are all too imitable, as were the sections of Van Loon's previous books which they imitate. Example: "[The ice age] was the period during which the human race went to school, for it was a question of invent or perish. And, as nobody likes to perish (the experience is so uncomfortably drastic and final), people began to use their brains and became great inventors...
...indeed bringing in the mail. In a recent column, Boal had answered a question he had often been asked: Is Mrs. Hunkle real? Wrote he: "Sure she exists . . . she lives in perhaps 500,000 houses in London or Manchester or Leeds. . . . I didn't invent her. I merely tried to describe...
...last of it. This situation, which is not unheard of in the home-loving U.S., might have been the basis for a touching and impressive film. Or, in skillful hands, it might have been first-rate comedy. Those who made this version use all the known tricks, and invent a few new ones, for depriving it of both humor and humanity...