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Word: patenting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down with it went the House's bloodlust. By Saturday, when Adams sent back the Deficiency bill, the House was relaxed, approved it swiftly. Leaders tried to soothe the session's accumulated seven-months bitterness. In the House they succeeded, in the Senate a diehard New Dealer, patent-leather-haired Claude Pepper of Florida, re-opened and salted afresh all the old wounds with a last-minute castigation of the anti-Administration "alliance." In words so cutting they skirted the edge of Senate rules he scourged the Republocrats for "putting personal grudge and party feeling above the welfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Blood on the Saddle | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Among inventions patented in recent weeks at the U. S. Patent Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...fibers of the meat as effectively as if they had been ground into "hamburger" and the "tempering" (slow thawing) helped. Also he found that when piled one on another the slices stuck together, made thicker steaks that could be cut with a fork. Canny Butcher Dubil took out a patent on his process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Butcher's Luck | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...frontier was far more tolerant of Bret Harte, according to Author Walker's records, than Harte ever admitted. A slender, curly-haired, sickly New York boy, who had read Shakespeare at six, Bret (whose friends sometimes called him Fanny) was a self-conscious literary man, who prospected in patent-leather shoes, drove a stagecoach only long enough to get his literary stake. He wrote his frontier successes when he had long been sitting comfortably behind a desk. Far from being unappreciated, when the Atlantic Monthly offered him $10,000 a year, the frontier went the limit to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

General Leone got the bright idea of dressing a raiding party in suits of armor-"They admit of the most daring exploits in broad daylight," beamed the general, confiding that the Austrians had spent enormous sums trying to steal the patent on them. Eighteen volunteers, looking like medieval knights, heaved themselves over the parapet, clanked toward the enemy. The general turned to the colonel and said gravely, "The Romans owed their victories to their cuirasses." Two Austrian machine guns punctuated his remark. As he peered over the parapet, the last of the 18 armored Italians toppled over like tin cans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alpine Fighters | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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