Word: processes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autobiography Steffens pictured his development as a logical process, which had the effect of making him seem egotistical, self-assured, didactic. His letters show him to have been emotional, genial, affectionate, often bewildered, but with a lively awareness of his own contradictions. In one of his periodic hunts for seclusion, he wrote: "I am alone as I wished, and ... I can hardly stand...
...Miller continued, "Every well informed person knows that this so-called Spanish Republic is not a democracy, but a communist state aided both materially and spiritually by the present regime in Russia." May I point out that the legitimate government in Spain was placed in power by democratic process in February, 1936; that of the 473 deputies then elected to the Cortes only 16 were communists; and that when Franco revolted in July, 1936, there was in the government neither a communist nor a socialist. The revolt, aided from the start by Hitler and Mussolini, did, indeed, force a coalition...
After that the Dictator, who has silently digested the views of Fascist best minds, gets up and makes a declaration, telling his Grand Council and every Italian what is going to be what. Last week this process took five hours. When the locked doors of the Grand Council finally opened at 2:30 a. m., it was to disclose new and still more selective decrees in Italian Fascism's already highly selective policy of antiSemitism. There shall be no discrimination, decreed the Grand Council, against Italian Jews of the following seven categories...
Army chemists have experimented on 90 yards of wool (enough for about 50 shirts), consider the results satisfactory. Presumably the War Department, which can use the process royalty-free, will treat army uniforms, blankets and other woolen equipment with the solution. A few days after the patents were granted, Inventor Peakes had requests for detailed information from eight clothing manufacturers...
...Last year an English textile chemist, A. J. Hall, invented a process which consists of dipping wool in sulfuryl chloride, a chemical used in dry cleaning, but the formula's commercial possibilities have not yet been determined...