Word: processes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflation temporarily occupy the stage front in the Washington political setting, Miss Secretary of Labor Perkins is doing her best to push her pet labor project through its last barrier, the House. This bill, known as the Black bill, makes a compulsory thirty-hour week for industry. In the process of its legal fruition it has fortunately struck a snag and there is every reason to believe sweeping changes must and will be effected in it, for as it is now constituted, this opus of Mr. Black is of serious portent to both labor and any economic renaissance...
Dartmouth College, having experimented for twelve years with the selective process of admissions, has now decided to extend, it as the sole basis for choosing applicants. Prospective freshmen will be considered on individual standards, entrance unit requirements are to be abolished, and the approved school will become a vestigial organ in Hanover. The decision comes as the result of a feeling that the present qualifications are both impersonal and meaningless, and is intended to exert a humanizing influence upon the somewhat Prussian character of admission brochures...
...incomprehensible to the individual who has not had the good fortune to study this system, and after reading the first two sections he would do best to go back to "Science and the Modern World," read it, and then return to finish this book, and after this proceed to "Process and Reality," the most difficult of all. Those who have a grounding in philosophy will find the chapters on Objects and Subjects. Appearance and Reality and the derived interpretation of Truth and Beauty extremely stimulating...
...Graduates, which, presumably, subscribes to the program of the Association, and which makes a few moderate requests of the college administration. These are men educated and mentally fitted for responsible positions of demonstrable value to the community. Yet that same training and capacity has rendered them unfit in the process of locating employment during a Depression. In order that protracted discouragement may not lead to despondent mental inaction, they would have the college open its graduate school, library, and gymnasium facilities, free of charge, to worthy impoverished graduates...
...Board. John Planter, who normally raises 90 bales of cotton, steps up and promises to raise only 60 this year. Secretary Wallace gives him an option on 30 bales of Government cotton at 6? per lb., the current market price. When hundreds of thousands of John Planters repeat this process, cotton demand starts to exceed cotton supply and prices (in theory) spurt up to 8? or 10? or 12? per lb. Next autumn John Planter orders Secretary Wallace to sell his option cotton, makes a tidy profit to compensate him for the 30 bales he never raised. If the cotton...