Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should have been called a 'regretta,'" Coach Tom Bolles said yesterday, "and was an unfortunate part of the painful process of acquiring experience. The Varsity shell was definitely in the race for the first mile, and for the next 1/4 mile it seemed as though they might still be in it. But after that the boys just ran out of gas. The other boats didn't put on much of an extra sprint; we slowed down...
F.Y.I.'s editor and its reporters stick close to two of the fundamental tenets of good journalism: facts & names. Their output is as unfettered as the title of their publication. In the process of recording the engagements, births, shifts, departures, homecomings of this naturally restless and nomadic business, and such incidental intelligence as "Marjorie, formerly known as Pease, would like to be hailed henceforth as Sparks-married last September." F.Y.I, manages to be both informative and sprightly...
...proper frequency, receiving sets pick up these signals, reconvert them to electrical impulses which bombard a roll of paper. The result: the chemically treated paper develops an impression much as a photoprint reacts from light waves. Fine type, action pictures and advertisements come through with amazing clarity. (Another facsimile process, developed by Finch Telecommunications, Inc., will be demonstrated this week to newspapermen in Manhattan...
...will be gambling a lot on a slim profit margin. It will cost slightly more than 4? a gallon to produce gasoline, which now sells wholesale for 6¼?. The company will be able to keep its cost of making gasoline down by selling the by-products of its process-1,164 barrels of Diesel oil and 70,000 pounds of alcohol a day. But if the price of gasoline should fall far enough, the profit may well disappear. RFC and the oil companies think the gamble well worth while: if the venture succeeds, it may eventually increase the potential...
Political Paleontology. Trotsky's Stalin is an attempt at political paleontology. Says he: Stalin "seems to have no prehistory. The process of his rise took place somewhere behind an impenetrable political curtain. At a certain moment his figure, in the full panoply of power, suddenly stepped away from the Kremlin wall, and for the first time the world became aware of Stalin as a ready-made dictator." Trotsky's purpose is to supply this prehistory...