Word: processes
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Minor clubs are also active, with the Bridge Club holding a tournament open to any member of the College. Thus far more than fifty duos have signed up for the competition for a cash prize. The Chess Club and the Stamp Club are still in a process of formation, while the Photography Club is converting a room in the Union into a dark-room...
...grow strong enough to keep the peace. He believes passionately, however, that the infant U.N. must learn to crawl before it can stand up to the great nations whose veto almost nullifies U.N.'s peace-loving powers. Learning to crawl toward peace will be a slow process, Lie says: "This task, to make life richer for ordinary human beings everywhere, must occupy us throughout our lifetimes, and it will occupy those who follow us in time to come...
...Third Reading is carried, Richard, the clerks write some words in Norman French upon it and it is sent along the passage to the House of Lords. There it goes through precisely the same process. ... After the King-or his representatives-gives Le Roy le veult . . . the Bill becomes an Act of Parliament, and those clever people who have for so long been saying 'Why don't you do something?' now unite to say 'Why ever did you do that...
...below zero, Fahrenheit. He breathed into the chamber and his breath condensed to fog. He made a magic pass with a single pellet of dry ice. The fog cleared, and glittering snowflakes drifted on to the chamber's floor. From this point it was easy to expand the process to full, outdoor scale...
When Hawaii's 33 plantation owners balked, Bridges demonstrated in miniature what organized labor can do to a country's economy.* The continuing maritime strike on the West Coast (in the process of settlement this week) helped his cause. The islands, long a tourist paradise, depend for sustenance on seaborne traffic. Since the shutdown of Pacific shipping seven weeks ago, only three relief ships, sent by the Department of Interior, have reached Hawaii with vitally needed food...