Word: patently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days of patent medicines, cordials, elixirs, tonics, stomach bitters for dyspepsia and "night sweats...
...days of the gold rush to California, when ships laden with optimists were dashing madly from the East coast to the West, around Cape Horn, in ISO days. Eastern papers blazoning forth "California advertisements"-sales of trunks, guidebooks, tools, cough-drops, coffee grinders, collapsible boats, patent medicines, rubber garments- every conceivable article a gold digger might conceivably require-even one enterprising concern announcing: "Ho for California! Last, not least! Persons going to the gold regions are seriously advised to take, among other necessaries, a good lot of monuments and tombstones. A great saving can be effected by having their inscriptions...
Said Dr. Box: "I have no material and no patent to sell...
Possibly the fear that this blissful heedlessness will continue indefinitely has prompted the American Telephone and Telegraph Company to institute a series of patent suits which bring up for consideration the whole problem of broadcasting. But this apparently commendable impulse has been uncharitably criticized as an attempt to again complete control of the new industry. Certainly the defense of the company's proceedings which was based on the argument that neglect to sue would "in effect dedicate valuable property to the public" rings sharply of self-interest, rather than of a desire to promote public good. And theories arguing that...
...come momentous; and only after industry has crystallized into unalterable moulds. For once the Federal government may apply its regulative power to a new industry. it may in a manner direct the inevitable expansion of the radio industry into those channels best calculated to serve public interests if the patent-suits do succeed in forcing the government to seize time by the forelock their inauguration is not to be condemned...