Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Measured by Complicated Process...
...speed of the star was measured at the University Observatory by a complicated process of observations and computations, including among other things the comparison of photographs recently taken here with others taken 31 years ago, when the Observatory was just beginning its task of preserving a photographic history of the entire sky. Since that time a "sky patrol" has been kept without interruption at Cambridge, supplemented by photographs taken at the station at Arequipa, Peru, and the history of the stars down to the eleventh magnitude has been written by the stars themselves on over a quarter of a million...
...process of cutting graduate and undergraduate applications for tickets for the Harvard-Yale game at New Haven is under way and will be completed by the end of the week. The cut is to affect only three seat applications, all those made by graduates, numbering about 4,400, and about 600 of those made by undergraduates...
...constitutional right, and has proved powerless to insure fair return under adverse traffic conditions. Indications are appearing that labor representatives and railroad managements can get together just as well under present conditions as without a Labor Board. As to consolidations, there is no reason to be impatient because a process which has been going on practically since the first railroads were constructed has not been completed for all time within a period of two years...
...desire is felt for some change or addition, a certain amount of enthusiasm is aroused; but the machinery for change is ponderous to set in motion, and before anything results, the sponsors of the plan have gone on and been replaced by new men for whom the whole process must be repeated. Many men now in the University will never profit by the projected golf links. But that is no excuse for them to hold back their much-needed expression of interest. The present is the "psychological moment" for pushing the plan. There is an active group of golf enthusiasts...