Word: patent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's postwar comeback is largely the work of a burly Frenchman with a booming laugh and a bike-racer's stamina: Board Chairman Max Hymans, 55, a native Parisian who was successively an engineer, patent attorney, politician, and resistance leader before signing on as Free
Aside from the patent absurdity of considering classes the prime feature of a university, and the sheer impracticability of any preventative measure having to do with anyone in the true holiday spirit, there is another, more pertinent objection to these measures, whatever scandalous form they may take. One wonders what will become of the geographical distributee, the Southern or Western wanderer who must traverse great distances to reach his festive home. For, unless the University allows students more holiday time before Christmas than it has of late, the young gentleman from the hinterlands would be hard put to reach home...
...them a stimulating workout. Soon they found ways to reconcile-and reinforce-their theories with the Lamb and Kusch experiments. Both discoveries went into the general pool of scientific knowledge and had no immediate effect in practical applied physics. Said smiling Dr. Kusch last week: "You can peddle the patent rights...
Inventor Jay H. Robbins '56 took out U.S. patent number 2,722,216 last week for a safe and accurate device for self-administering eye drops which prevents spilling. The new eye-dropper is fitted with a bridge that straddles the nose, steadying the glass tube and enabling the user to squeeze the medicine into any part of the eye. Robbins pointed out that the "successful independent inventor is rapidly disappearing from the American scene." Large industry corners most of the patents, with the result that less than one percent of unassigned patients ever reach the public. He hopes, however...
...French high cultural circles, mere excellence is not considered the whole guarantee of immortality. The distinguished men who at any one time occupy the 40 chairs of the famed Académie Française enjoy a specific patent of immortality that dates back to Cardinal Richelieu. But many of France's greatest writers have been barred from the academy for reasons that had little to do with their greatness. The academy's mythical "41st chair," reserved by legend for those who never made the grade, has been occupied by such greats as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose loose...