Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This conservation scheme embodies a plan to use the coal twice. Mr. Ford has announced that he will ask all industrial users of his coal to install furnaces that will remove only the gas, leaving a fuel unimpaired for domestic purposes. The coal, after this process, would be sold to heat the homes of hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the country. According to a technical explanation of this gas removing process, the fuel would then be more valuable than ordinary coal for heating...
...disease through their natural powers of resistance. Others fail to develop this immunity and the infection flares up and becomes pulmonary. The new test consists of a serum which is mixed with a sample of the patient's blood. This serum reacts positively only when the tubercular process is still actively present, and not when it merely has existed in the past. It is not affected by syphilitic toxins. While he does not claim that his test will make possible 100% accuracy in diagnosis and complete cure of the disease, Dr. Wassermann believes that it will enable the forces...
Unfortunately, the comedian finds the plan disconcerting to his selfesteem. So he meets her in make-up and removes it by imperceptible touches, casting about her the while the spell of his personality, so that when he is himself again the whole process has gone unobserved and she is his for the plucking. He plucks...
...report of President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Leland Stanford University describes the addition of several important building units to the university, including the Stanford Union, the Stanford School of Nursing, residence halls for men, dining hall in process of construction and a "basketball pavilion." The endowment campaign of 1922 was successful and the income from the first million is to be used for salaries. The Carnegie Corporation has founded at Stanford a Food Research Institute which is operating as an active part of the university...
...believe many things, and must be prepared to carry the evidence to its conclusion, even though it upset some previous beliefs or opinions. If they add to previous knowledge a careful and orderly consideration of the topic, and shape their beliefs to accord with new facts, then the scientific process begins, and subjects treated in this manner, when they exist in the field of nature, become natural history...