Word: processed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary horizon like a cloud no bigger than a man's hand, swells quickly to mistily gigantic proportions and-vanishes like a mist. Gertrude Stein is no such writer. Like a huge squat mountain on a distant border of the literary kingdom, obscured not only by the cloudy procession of more Aprilly authors but by the self-induced fog that hangs around her close-cropped top, she has loomed from afar over the hinterland of letters, a sphinxlike, monolithic mass. Twenty years she has squatted there; eyes accustomed to the landscape are beginning to recognize something portentous...
...then be able to find its way back to the point of digression in the main text. Less nimble eyes can be aided by staking out the point of digression with forefinger or pencil. Readers too engrossed by the main discourse to break off are advised to reverse this process. Let them pounce on the asterisk with finger or pencil, finish the story, then return and clean up the footnotes. Badly written and edited is any TIME account wherein a footnote contains information essential, rather than ancillary, to the story.-ED. Publisher Thomson & Senator Long...
Sirs: For the reason that this company discovered, developed, and applied the combination of the process and the air conditioning system that made possible shipments by steamer without refrigeration, we have read with considerable interest the article entitled "Paraffined Oranges" under the heading "Transportation" on page 14 of the July 17 issue of your excellent periodical. The Brogdex System is not new, as it has been in use on oranges, lemons and grapefruit in packing houses in California, Florida and Texas for a great many years-more than 65 million boxes of citrus fruit having been Brogdexed during that period...
...nitrogenous accelerators required to cure the rubber for commercial use. The Rubber Growers' chemists, H. P. Stevens and E. J. Parry, have been unable to find substitute accelerators as good as the smelly ones. On the other hand they found that zinc carbonate added during the manufacturing process reduced smells to a minimum, and very simply. More complicated and costly is the purification of the latex (the original rubber fluid tapped from the trees) by digestion with dilute caustic, centrifuging, creaming, dialysis, or ultrafiltration...
...Meat-Packer Armour after the War lost $1,000,000 a day for 130 days, died insolvent in 1927. But the oil-cracking process of one Carbon Petroleum Dubbs, in which he had plunged, made Mrs. Armour wealthy again...