Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makes his comparisons by means of an "international unit" (IU). One IU equals the amount of goods and services that $1 could buy in the U.S. during the period 1925-1934 (see chart). Clark takes his figures for Russia from official Soviet statistics, but adjusts them in an involved process of his own invention. (His former computations about the Soviet economy were at one time heavily criticized; since then, however, they have been strikingly confirmed by independent research of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board...
...until she gave way to some quiet gloating in her column about the favorable response in her mailbag. Surely, she must have realized that a considerable proportion of this response came from people afflicted with the fault which had been attributed to her and which she was in the process of disowning...
...place. The former owners wanted it back, and agreed to pay Hunt a $50,000 fee plus a big percentage of any amount under $800,000 he was able to get it for. He got it for $635,000, and made $86,000 by a process which, though legal, could hardly have been applauded by U.S. taxpayers...
...live cannily. They avoided hot subway gratings and steaming manholes as martens avoid traps; when walking they tried to route themselves past the doors of air-conditioned movies, where they could breath in a little coolness. The touch of a barber's hot towel, or the simple process of swallowing hot coffee, was enough to make a shirt go limp or a woman's make-up shine greasily. In the packed and airless slums, tens of thousands slept on rooftops or fire escapes. The heat seemed even more pitiless out across the farm states, where farmers often worked...
Giotto, says Ortega, was "a painter of solid and independent bodies." Three centuries later, Velasquez emphasized "hollow space"-the area between the eye and the thing seen. In recording only a dazzle of colored lights, the impressionists brought painting smack up to the retina. Picasso carried the same process a step further, painting what was back of the eyeball, inside his head. "[In the Picasso school] the eyes, instead of absorbing things, are converted into projectors of private flora and fauna. Before, the real world drained off into them; now, they are reservoirs of irreality...