Word: patent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proton microscope, but quickly found that he knew better ways of making distortion-free pinholes than anyone else. He spent months developing his own technique when he was a graduate student working on an X-ray microscope, and though he published his method he never bothered to patent it. Now the owner wanted to learn how to make them, and hoped to hire Horowitz as a consultant...
Maybe it would have been better if a hot-shooting Crimson guard hadn't canned one of those patent-pending 45-footers to drag Oral Roberts into the extra period...
...Patent medicines generally are not adequate. Patients whose scaling clears up after long, messy and expensive hospital treatments may find that the disease comes back as soon as they return home. Now genuine relief may be at last in sight. Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced last week that they and an Austrian co-worker have combined an ancient drug with modern technology to produce a treatment that can not only clear up psoriasis in a month but help keep it from recurring...
...Hartmann's longstanding reputation for brusqueness and abrasiveness. After he became a Counsellor to the President, his father, Miner Hartmann, 85, sent him a vial of silicon carbide, which is used in grinding steel. "You grew up on it," explained an accompanying note from the elder Hartmann, a patent attorney in Beverly Hills, Calif., and former chemist who once directed research for the Carborundum Co. Even Wife Roberta concedes that Hartmann "does not have time to be as tactful as some people would wish." But he can also be garrulous and genial, particularly while reminiscing with old friends from...
...Frankenstein revamped, of course, but the signals seem to have gone wrong somewhere. Clearly, Hodges intended a caution against science that can mistake mind warping for mind mending. Despite all the patent disapproval, though, the operation still seems feasible, the only alternative to Benson's previous condition. The unresolved conflict lends the film a rather archaic tone, like those old horror movies that ended in the smoldering ashes of some laboratory, where a dim but wise policeman would shake his head and say, "Man wasn't ready for such knowledge...