Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administration and the farmers disagree only upon the method of raising farm prices; that farm prices ought to be raised seems eminently patent to both. But not to Pollux and myself. What is needed is not higher prices, but more and faster money. Given a limited flow of money, higher prices simply mean lower physical turnover, less industrial activity, and deeper depression. Only an increase in the flow, that is, in the velocity times the quantity of money, can produce the greater turnover of goods which alone means prosperity for farmers or for anybody else. From the specific standpoint...
...What ails the colleges seems to most a deep and occult mystery, but it is patent to all that the college student is alike an affliction to himself and to the world. Whether he be the gin-drinking, neurotically erotic, three-gallons-of-gas-and-a-dark-lane sort, or the sweet grind sedulously poring his neuter way through dusty tomes, or one of the infinite gradations between, he is a sorry confection to send out into the great world to take his place in the ruling class. He has no ideals worthy of the name, and of most subjects...
...liquid. Apart from its high heat capacity, "NS fluid" does not corrode iron or other ordinary metals and does not decompose while in a closed heating system. Its expansion is limited. It can be melted and resolidified in glass tubes without breaking them. One Ernst Sander owns the German patent on "NS fluid." The stuff can be made and sold cheaply. Dr. Little thinks that "NS fluid" or materials like it "offer interesting possibilities for new types of domestic heating...
...CRIMSON finds great consolation in one patent fact. No officials of Lehman Hall, nor of University Hall, nor of Pierce Hall, or even of Baker Hall, have anything to do with the great bridge project...
...writing of the book is sloppy, a thing to be expected. The sloppiness is increased by Mr. Wells' quaint gesture of including a few patent words, similar to the synthetic vocabulary of Mr. James Joyce, to lend the writings of the future an unnecessary flavor of impossibility. Be it regarded as history or romance, "The Shape of Things to Come" is faulty and chaotic in organization; this short-coming is aggravated by the fact that its creator neglected to instruct his secretary to make that handy appendage, an index...