Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That cutting is a costly process is borne in upon us more and more as examinations roll inevitably by, and the tutoring schools offer to "fill those gaps" for five or ten dollars as the case may be. But for the benefit of the mathematically-minded the actual cost of lectures has been worked out to show just how much loss each cut entails...
...when the explosion occurred was not of an experimental nature, but consisted of pumping oxygen in the gaseous form from a balloon in a shed outside the building by means of a compressor with water-lubricated cylinders into a tank. It should be said that this is a standard process constantly carried on in commercial plants. How the oil which caused the explosion got into the tank in this particular case is the problem which we are making every effort to solve in cooperation with the State authorities...
...real detective, however shrewd a ratiocinator, rarely meets with a situation where the source of a mystery can be reached by a straight chain of syllogisms. In detecting the perpetrator of a crime, the real detective usually examines all the suspects and finds the guilty party by a winnowing process of elimination, or by the even more haphazard plan of choosing the motive that seems to fit best with the circumstances and then examining suspects with reference to it. When he is successful, which is perhaps as often as not, it is generally by reason of the number of sleuths...
...second place, the colleges associated with technical, professional graduate and trade schools. Time and circumstance are taking care of the college in this group also. The term of so-called "liberal arts" work is now cut to about two years, and the course of instruction is still in process of dissolution. In a little while it will have no reason for existence except to afford and introduction to technical and professional training. This far from being a cause for distress, out the to be a source of congratulation. Mankind makes advance by shedding delusions and when...
...stage in Brattle Hall is small and poorly arranged; it is neither high nor deep; heavy beams cross the ceiling. Despite these drawbacks, the settings designed by D. M. Oenslager were admirable, simple in their broad lines, charming in detail. The lighting, which was obtained by a new process, with colored silks used as screens, produced soft and pleasing effects. The costumes were all irreproachably correct...