Word: processes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apparently the scheme was to substitute "hot" (stolen) bonds, which could be purchased for 10¢ or 15¢ on the dollar, for the securities in Lincoln Life's vaults. For this mulcting process the sharpers needed a no-questions-asked bank to act as 1) a depository where loans could be made on the outflowing Lincoln securities, and 2) a reputable vendor of the inflowing "hot" bonds, so that the state insurance department would not be suspicious. With out much trouble, Baiata & friends found a bank for sale in Indianapolis. The dice-playing treasurer swept up an armful of securities from...
...lords of University Hall are a resourceful lot. Confronted with this age-old problem, they remained undaunted. After a process of cerebration, law was established. In precise terms the distinction was made: "He who has not partaken of three years of Latin or one and one-half years of Greek is a scientist...
...promotion campaign. With ease he sold the idea to his client Walter B. Sanders, publisher of Geneseo's Leader. Last fortnight the Leader splashed down its front page a two-column invitation to all Geneseans to come to the newspaper office and be fingerprinted, free, by a new process using...
...Rothemund concluded that this was the process of photosynthesis and chlorophyll genesis after he raised an acre of colorless corn in the pitch-dark cellar of the big laboratory building which Antioch College built with Mr. Kettering's money. The extract of white corn leaves turned green when Dr. Rothemund put it in jars of carbon dioxide...
...their ideas on these subjects of vital importance. The vast majority of students are engaged in the accumulation of facts and rarely are they concerned with the implications of these upon their personal life. Content to amass a rich store of factual data most students see in this process only a means of either pleasantly spanning the years of their youth or of acquiring a technical background for a career in the world. Why they want to engage in one occupation rather than another, what values in life are important, and how they fit into the plan of the universe...