Word: patent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Allen, M., patent attorney...
...University Library has just obtained some valuable old prints and manuscripts at a dealer's auction held last week in New York. Among the rarer and more valuable manuscripts is a large vellum sheet, giving patent letters of chivalry to Messire Angier de Busbeeq, and bearing the signature and seal of Emperor Ferdinand I. of Austria, dated April 3rd 1564. One of the most interesting works is Erasmus's "Commentaries of Cato's Moral Sayings for Children," published...
...have done it with success, and it is needless to mention how many other colleges have had Yale coaching. At what college of note in the East will you find Harvard coaching in vogue? You cannot find it because there is no system to teach. Was there a single patent trace of Reid's labors this past season...
...could consent to its publication. "A Dedication" by Mr. John Hall Wheelock differs from these two poems, and is at once raised to a higher level by the fact that it is not more playing with metrical forms, but an obviously sincere endeavor to express something. Despite its patent technical shortcomings, it succeeds in a degree sufficient to justify itself. Precisely what thought underlies its compressed and complex sympathetic imagery one would, it is true, hesitate, even after a considerate reading, to pronounce with much precision. But the purport is clear enough, the mood is undeniably poetic, and it touches...
...genius are mere caprices of chance. Some philosophers try to support this theory by the assertion that every great invention which has taken place, has been discovered simultaneously by several minds, while the one to receive the credit was he who was lucky enough to get to the patent office first. That this is untrue, that it was the greatest genius, and not the quickest foot which received the credit, was shown by the examples offered in past history of several men who lived under the same conditions, but of whom one always emerged superior...