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English: a newspaper story you saved;football: blocking below the waist from behind

English: a father's coming-of-age talk with his son;basketball: the opposite of zone

English: a small piece of candy;golf: how you put a ball back in play after knocking your shot into a lake

English: sweet glaze on a cake;hockey: shooting the puck all the way down from your own end

In England no patents are listed from Jan. 30, 1649 to May 29, 1660 due to this man's tenure as Lord Protector

James Burbage was part of the Earl of Leicester's men, which in 1574 was the first ever of these to get a patent

Litigation on this man's 1796 patent for steam engines established that improvements for known machines were allowed

John Harrington's patent for a water closet was denied by this ruler in 1596 on grounds of propriety

The first British patent was given in 1449 by Henry VI to make stained glass for this largest English boys' college