Word: procession
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...franchise grants; (b) money payments from year to year, in the nature of taxes and in the nature of rental for streets; (c) services other than money payments required of the companies, such as street paving, street cleaning, etc.; (d) the finances of the street railway company; (e) the process of consolidation of street railway companies, if such has taken place; (f) the present condition of the street railway service; (g) suggestions for the improvement of the service...
...decency is violated by official exploitation of criminal license, it becomes an avalanche and temporarily overwhelms its oppressors. Like an avalanche, however, it possesses no constructive power and when the old forces that for the time being have become subterranean, force their way again to the surface, the process is repeated. It is true that there is progress but it is not so rapid as we should have reason to expect...
...first process is that of folding the sheets, the next that of sewing them together, and this is accomplished by means of the sewing frame, which he described in detail. The whole is now shaped like a wedge, with the thick end towards the back. When hammered flat, the back is stiffened with glue, and the boards are fastened to the book by the projecting ends of the cords on which it was sewed. The leather then is pared to the right degree of thinness, and pasted on, the edges turned over inside, and covered with paper. The binding...
...evening. He outlined the preparation of a wellfinished book at the present day, and gave a detailed exhibition of the work of printer, "forwarder," and "finisher." Among other things, the lecturer explained the use of the sewing-frame, the method of covering the quires when bound, and, finally, the process of decoration by means of metallic stamps applied by hand...
...Spirit of Democracy," by Chas. F. Dole; "Christianity and Socialism," by Washington Gladden; "Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation," by Florence Kelley; "The Neighbor," by N. S. Shaler; "The Jungle," by Upton Sinclair; "On the Trail of the Immigrant," by E. A. Steiner; "The City Wilderness" and "Americans in Process," by R. A. Woods...