Word: invented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Happy Homes. Wars and epidemics now hold little terror for Metropolitan, which has so much cash that it has been forced to invent new ways of investing it. One of the most successful: its eight apartment house developments in New York, California and Virginia (total capacity: 125,000 people), in which the Metropolitan has invested $300 million in 30 years. To Metropolitan's 33 million individual policyholders, one of the most reassuring facts is that the company's checks have long borne the signatures of Washington (Lawrence, third vice president) and Lincoln. Soon they will have...
...like the eastand westbound sections of the streamliner, however identical they appear to be, [these laboratories] are simply not headed in the same direction. The aim of science is to discover new knowledge and new principles. The aim of technology ... is to invent new devices, new machines, new processes, new techniques. And in the long run the new developments in technology will be based only upon the new knowledge uncovered by science...