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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...market at a reasonable price. But no sound firm is going to spend money on research and perfection of, say, a new drug, unless it has the protection of a patent on that new drug. Quite possibly a competitor might place on the market a product of inferior quality which would undersell the reputable drug and cause great loss to the company marketing it. And if, because the patent on an invention is "dedicated to the public" no reputable firm dares to develop that invention, the public actually will not gain...
...hundred ways he was the salt of New England. For years he shouldered two man-sized jobs, with ease and distinction. His courtesy was unfailing, his skepticism healthy. The honesty of the man was never more marked than in his day-to-day product. He scorned the trappings of style that sometimes pass for journalistic brilliance. He wrote to convey information, not for effect. For fifty years his big holiday was the Harvard-Yale boat races, and his Globe story would always come in in some such fashion: "Harvard's crew defeated Yale this afternoon on the Thames by three...
...dour tenement-street pantomime choreographed by Dancer Eugene Loring. Dance critics liked Charade's tricky trip ping and whimsey, found City Portrait somewhat incoherent. But Kirstein 's home made ballet, like Finland's home-made army, appeared able to hold its own against the Russian product...
...have recently had occasion to advise you to check your turbid sources and I do so again in your interest because your readers are bound to discover sooner or later that your so-called war reports are mostly the product of complete ignorance or unhealthy imagination...