Word: patents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the Grey or Bethlehem beam, invented by Henry Grey (1849-1913). Weight for weight it is lighter and stronger than ordinary I-beams, and so is preferred by constructors, who gladly pay a bonus of $2 a ton to Bethlehem which has the patent and production rights. Incidentally they do not object when a Bethlehem salesman wants all their structural business...
...college and university, daily before the public eye would stress such things as have been mentioned by the "Herald" and the "Times", then the country at large might have a saner conception of what college really means. And the moving picture hero with a crazy-quilt sweater and patent leather hair might be removed from his niche of credence in the public mind...
Penn took its hidden ball trick to Champaign, ILL., where the illustrious Frosty Peters proved that a strong boot is better than patent elbow pads by kicking the goal that won for Illinois in the last period...
...Baldwin is hardlaboring. There can be little question of that. His very writing proves it. In the excerpts from his article, "The Next President of Harvard--A Prediction", published in the Transcript of yesterday one discovers the hard labor of love. He wants the Presidency. That is patent And no one should be President who does not want the position. As Mr. Baldwin may have guessed, it really is a difficult task...
...American officers.' . . ." Colonel Thompson then departed, proceeded on to Jolo, Sulen Island, where was another disturbance, this time a minor one, culminating in the Moro datus* unsheathing their barongs and krises ominously, but quickly quieting when appeared a little brown figure in white alpaca coat, pongee trousers, patent leather shoes, stiff color, fez. Hadji Jamalul Kiram II, famed sultan of Sulu, then spoke: ". . . If we are cast off now [by the Americans] we will fight. They can cut our heads off before we will submit to the Filipinos...