Word: patently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...television buzz, appointed a committee to find out what Baird Tele vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television passed a gruesome mile stone in Crystal Palace when a technician made some adjustments, fumbled, was electrocuted...
...bill, for, in sober deliberation, events once rosy take on the stark grimness of reality. True, dangers of the paths are now abolished, but at the sacrifice of an undergraduate prerogative which except for the heart-rending interregnum of the Lowell regime has lasted since Lallement got his patent in 1866. In the wink of an eye a tradition of three-quarters of a century is brought crashing to the ground...
Mayflower Associates showed an actual gain in net asset value in the six years since 1929. Under the personal management of Robert Earll McConnell, a highly successful mining and patent promoter who gets a cut from the trust's profits, Mayflower goes in for special situations even more heavily than Atlas. It made a tremendous profit on Rhodesian copper stocks early in Depression, has always kept a large part of its resources in cash or Government bonds to catch a bargain when it flits by. Though total assets are more than $13,700,000 Mayflower stock is inactive...
Graduate of Northwestern University's dental school in 1913, Dr. Hartman interrupted private practice in Seattle to go to war. On his return be assailed dental pain. Now ready for general use, his "desensitizer" will be made available to the unmonied through patent control by Columbia University. In the gallery of benefactors of humankind, Northwestern's and Columbia's Dr. Hartman's portrait will look out with a bluff twinkle that for once does not give the dentist's false assurance...
TIME said: "The basic patent on Monopoly was obtained by Mrs. Elizabeth M. Phillips who . . . developed the idea years ago. . . ." Her patent was granted in 1924.-ED. Snips Sirs: Let the chronic savers of TIME throw their hands on high at such blasphemy as snipping the pages of TIME, but we announce a new game. We snip out the pictures of such notables as we feel everyone should know and present them to our guests to identify. Such red faces and stuttering! We now have about 75 pictures and we are still going strong. It's pleasant pastime...