Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavy losses. Philanthropic patiences were said to be verging on exhaustion. With financial evils there were bickerings and disturbances. And when you have singers and musicians dissensions become wars and disputes pitched battles. Some subtle intelligence and masterful hand was needed to put the Metropolitan on its feet. The process normal to good business ? and the Directors of New York's opera have always been business men ? was to pick the best known success in the field of operatic management. Such a well known success was not far to seek...
Wildest hopes of the size and importance of fossil deposits have been confirmed. Asia is the center of dispersal of mammalian life. That was a theory. It is in process of being proved. The existence of a land bridge between Asia and North America has unquestionably been established. Until these deposits were found, the chief source of dinosaur remains was in the Rocky Mountain states...
...originally Samuel Goldfish), cinema producer: "The Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (formerly headed by me) unsuccessfully sought an injunction restraining me from using my name in any private cinema enterprise. The name is legally my own, although I was born 'Goldfish' and later acquired the 'Goldwyn' by process of combining the first syllable of my name with the last syllable of the surname of Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, my business associates...
...Congress decided that the executive department of the Government needed reorganization. In the process of natural growth bureaus and divisions had appeared within Departments and it was apparent that for efficiency's sake some straightening out was needed. So a Joint Committee on the Reorganization of the Administrative Branch of the Government was chosen. It worked on plans which were completed last year. Its plan aroused dissension in the Cabinet and never got so far as Congress. Other more pressing matters took its place. Now it has come to the fore once more...
...undergraduate, himself in process, who has watched men being molded, these charges, if charges they be counted, against Harvard may sound like sacrilege. But really they are not so much condemnation as criticism. They, and many others that might be read, come from men who were led into college along the well-paved road trod by their ancestors and who, during their undergraduate days, did not stray from the beaten path. Henry Adams is an excellent example. He moved to Cambridge, but could not get away from Boston...