Word: processer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having, by a process of adroit political shadow boxing, set himself up as President of the Philippine Commonwealth with virtually the powers of a dictator, sly little Manuel Quezon naturally has great faith in his ability to duck the punches which he is constantly aiming at his own head to convince skeptics that he is really not a dictator at all. Last winter, Manuel Quezon's shadow boxing took the form of a visit to the U. S. to promote the idea of advancing the date of Philippine independence from 1946 to 1938 or 1939. Advantage of this move...
...totalitarian states as a throwback to the coercion of the Ancion Regime. Mr. Lippman compares the limited abilities of man with the complexities of modern society and asks how the planners can possibly be expected to have a sufficient grasp of the situation to plan wisely. . "The whole social process is beyond any man's comprehension . . . Men cannot direct the social process. They can only intervene here and there...
Riggs, enthusiastic over the scientific aspects of his machine, described how the process works. When a revolver inounted on a table is fired, it severs a wire carrying a current, thus tripping a high-power 7500 volt condenser. As the bullet passes the open shutter of an ordinary Kodak, the tremendous electrical discharge causes a spark of approximately 900,000 candlepower to flash for 1-1,000,000 to 1-1,500,00 of a second. It is the inconceivable brevity of the flash and the enormous voltage released suddenly by the condenser that make possible such a high-speed...
...that Riggs has nearly perfected the process, after 26 months of work on the problem at his home laboratory in Lakeville, Conn., he will next endeavor to make the discharge of the spark an action independent of the firing of the bullet which breaks the circuit...
...slowly, talking lightly, not hurrying and not delaying, hardly thinking what we are saying; so walking and so lightly quietly talking . . ." Or again, "'What does it mean, Craig, where are they going, where are we going?' 'You tell me, why don't you!'" Mr. Laughlin is still in the process of finding his own style, of finding complete artistic sincerity: his story poses his own problem...