Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...process of saying goodnight has degenerated," declared Dean Sherman before an appreciative audience, explaining that loose interpretation of the law forced its redefinition. Radcliffe Houses will be no man's land after 10 o'clock on weekdays and 11 o'clock on Sundays, as fond nocturnal farewells become an outdoor sport...
...last October Russia tripled her annual research budget (including the atom) to $1,200,000,000. Last month Sergei Vavilov, president of the Soviet Academy of Science, said that 100,000 Russians were now engaged in "scientific work." Soviet physicists had separated U-235 by thermal diffusion (a process used at Oak Ridge, Tenn.) at the Dnepropetrovsk power plant in 1942 before the Nazis destroyed...
...detail of Heroic Age mining technique. The early Greeks lined their gold-washing sluices with sheepskins. The gold dust stuck to the natural grease in the wool. The same principle (the selective attraction of oily substances for certain mineral particles) is widely used today in the flotation process of concentrating metallic ores. Jason, then, according to Dr. Taggart, was perhaps no better than a sneak thief loitering around a primitive refinery...
...some intricate and mysterious process, the Business Machine cards are then put through the mill, and a "test" grade sheet similar to the original grade sheet is produced. The second safety check takes place when the "test" is compared with the original...
Outside railroads, Alleghany Corp. has some ten subsidiaries. The chief one is the Pittston Co., a holding company for various coal-mining interests. Outside Alleghany Corp., Bob Young's biggest investment is in Pathe Industries, Inc., a catch-all holding company. Its chief subsidiaries make, process and distribute movies. Young has already poured $20,000,000 into his new producing subsidiary, Eagle-Lion Films, Inc., hopes to turn it into a major Hollywood studio. For Eagle-Lion, Young has made a deal with British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank to distribute ten of his pictures in the U.S. while Rank...