Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers who tried to solve the block-counting questions had an impossible task. Somewhere in the process of publication you have deleted a line from one pile of blocks and added a line to the other, making the blocks in each pile of unequal size...
Belatedly Argentina went through the paper process of declaring war. But before she had fulfilled any of the other conditions of Chapultepec, the U.S. hastily thrust out a forgiving lollipop: recognition of the new Argentine regime. Then, at San Francisco, the U.S. found itself sponsoring Argentine membership...
...quarter. In those days I never thought I could ever again have a surfeit of democracy. To get out of bed on Sunday morning and walk to the polling booth does not seem a very heavy price to pay for freedom, but the French people are wearying of the process...
...women in the armed forces and the 720,000 in war plants at war's end, almost all have found civilian jobs. He added: "I cannot understand by what process of reasoning [some doubters] arrive at their conclusion that there will be a . . . minor depression next year. . . . With . . . so many people in possession of ready money when the goods are available, I cannot see anything ahead but a long period of employment...
...taciturn Irish inventor named Harry Ferguson made a deal with a shy, talkative inventor named Henry Ford. They both thought that a Ferguson-designed tractor, which had a hydraulic mechanism to raise and lower a plow automatically, would revolutionize agriculture. It didn't-exactly. But in the process the Ford Motor Co. made 250,000 Ferguson tractors, helped build Harry Ferguson Inc. into one of the biggest U.S. agricultural equipment companies...