Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Student self-government is a democratic process in miniature. At Harvard, moreover, this process involves a community from which many of tomorrow's political and intellectual leaders will develop. If our "higher education" is "education for democracy" the effectiveness of student government within the college must be carefully examined...
Said France's Georges Bidault: "We are simply going around in circles, a process which tends to make one sick...
...worried thoughtfulness. He is courtly and attentive to critical opinions he doesn't share, but unyielding about his own. There is nothing wry, shy or self-conscious about his approach to photography. He looks for "sorts of perfection" everywhere around him, and finds them by an unconscious process of recognition. "I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time," he says with a puzzled squint, "until I discovered I didn't need to. If the thing is there, why, there...
Died. Lieut. Commander Allan Ramsey Wurtele (rhymes with "fur tell"). U.S.N. (ret.), 54, pioneer in mechanized cane-farming; of a heart ailment; in Mix, La. Wurtele invented a mechanical cane-harvester, and developed a process for converting sugar into synthetic rubber, attracted wider attention in 1939 when he proposed a plan to appease Hitler by buying him Danzig and the Polish Corridor for $70 million (Wurtele offered...
...takes at least as great (and honorable) talent to entertain children as their elders; and if the children are well pleased, those who take them to the theater are, as a rule, nicely taken care of too-which can rarely be said of the reverse process. An excellent movie for children is the Australian-made Bush Christmas (Rank; Universal-International). A passable one is the American-made Thunder in the Valley (20th Century...