Word: invention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conservatism has a real solid, negative value. It can offer reasoned objections to foolish proposals. Every proposal for improving society should pass through the fire of conservative criticism. Were there no conservatives available for this process, we would have to invent them somehow or other...
...Wallace was one of the first to market a commercial strain of hybrid seed, but he did not invent the process. Many present-day methods of hybrid corn production can be traced back to the work of Professor George H. Shull around 1906 at the Station for Experimental Evolution in Cold Spring Harbor...
...ignoring style changes, says the magazine in summation, the Russian "has made a defiant gesture at class consciousness that fails absolutely. Actually he would be a great deal wiser to follow modern fashion in its entirety or invent a completely different form of dress. His humdrum neatness, coupled with naive mistakes, merely gives him a bourgeois look...
Last week, Soviet Bandleader Leonid Utesov produced a satiric view of Russian inventiveness. In a skit at Moscow's Hermitage Gardens, Utesov tells a friend that he is to be congratulated-he has just invented the umbrella. The friend points out that the umbrella has already been invented. "Yes," says Utesov, "but I am the first man to invent the umbrella for the second time...
...surface, the lives of J. Robert and Frank Oppenheimer resembled a brotherly game of follow-the-leader. Robert became a nuclear physicist; so did Frank, who is nine years younger. Robert helped invent the atomic bomb; Frank went to work on the A-bomb project. Last week the brothers appeared before congressional investigating committees, but beyond that there was no similarity in their performances...