Word: coe
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Coolidge, Dean Frederick M. Feiker of George Washington University School of Engineering, Manhattan Patent Lawyer (and Theatre Guild director) Lawrence Langner, Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s Vice President Thomas Midgley, Director Watson Davis of Science Service, Engineering Dean Webster N. Jones of Carnegie Tech, U. S. Patent Commissioner Conway Coe. Absent from the first meeting were Industrialist George Baekeland (Bakelite Corp.) and Dr. Orville Wright, once rated a crackpot tried & true...
Said Conway Coe when the council had finished organization, decided to meet again later: "We expect to get about 100,000 inventions a year. If ten of them prove to be useful . . . the idea will have been very much worthwhile. There's no such thing as a crackpot inventor. Edison might have been the crackpot of the century. . . . But his stuff clicked...
...stock certificates which bore the redemption clause (and a grammatical howler): "When elected, this certificate will entitle the holder to have luncheon or dinner as my guest at the Mansion." For Senator on the Democratic ticket: six, including Incumbent Charles O. Andrews, Governor Fred Preston Cone, Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, author of Me-Gangster, and Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story Magazine, Physical Culture, True Love and Romance. Declared Mr. Macfadden: "Teeming vitality is of course important, but a Government that robs the citizens of their liberties can still take the joy out of life...
After Aristotle. Biologist Wesley Roswell Coe of Yale: "I know of no satisfactory evidence that any of the numerous techniques that have been recommended in recent years have been more successful in prenatal sex control than those which Aristotle wrote were practiced in his illustrious century. These you may recall were based upon such fantastic theories as were concerned with the direction of the wind at the time of conception and similar nonsense. It must not be concluded, however, that the eventual discovery of a practical technique which will fulfill the desires of prospective parents and animal breeders is improbable...