Word: patently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noticed that the object of the library remains unchanged. What is changed is that the ownership passed from Mr. Morgan to the Trustees, of whom he, his wife, two sons and two other persons* closely connected with him, are members. Mr. Morgan's object in transferring the ownership is patent. Presumably Mr. Morgan's heir might have been left free to 'disperse the entire collection at his pleasure. By conveying the library to a Board of Trustees, its present nature will be kept for at least 100 years. All studentdom has reason to be duly grateful to Mr. Morgan...
Prudence Penny is a lady registered in the United States Patent Office, or rather she is several ladies whose name is thus registered. Prudence is one of the ways in which Mr. Hearst collects pennies by the million. In the words of one of Mr. Hearst's full page blurbs : " 'Mother Prudence,' 'Aunt Prudence,' 'Sister Prudence' they call her. She is all that and more." She is a walking dictionary, a "Confidanté of thousands," an expert in all the household arts, past master in how to keep husbands, children and a figure...
...Millerand, who, when he was elected President in 1920, stated that he intended to exercise to the full the powers which the office conferred upon him, made a speech defining the policy of the Bloc for the coming election. Ever since then it has become more and more patent that President Millerand is the real power in French domestic politics. M. Poincaré must choose between remaining faithful to the Bloc or joining the maturing Bloc Gauche, a task in which he is showing considerable hesitation...
...President of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, warned of the coming dangers of German low-cost competition. Colonel J. I. McMullen, Judge Advocate of the War Department, for the same reasons urged the necessity of protecting the dye industry through a higher tariff, and also a restriction of our patent laws similar to those abroad, whereby the holder of a patent here must manufacture only in this country...
...Radio Corporation, in November 1919, took over the properties, patents and licenses of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., and subsequently entered into agreements with companies controlling practically all patents covering radio devices, which made the Radio Corporation the selling agent for these companies. Such patents are gradually running out, however; the Fleming patent on the vacuum tube expired in 1922, and such tubes are now sold ro the public by several competing firms...