Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They thought, as Senator Jim Reed of Missouri was reported to have actually said: "We'll have to tame him." The taming process they regarded as easy; the Vice President, as presiding officer, has almost no power. He can only interpret the rules; while, on the floor, Senators can say anything they like about him or to him, confident that they can make him appear a jackass...
...plan we have adopted is practically free from all the red tape that usually accompanies life insurance. There will be no complicated application blanks to be filled out, there will be no questionnaire to be answered. The entire process will consist of merely signing a blank on which has been written each man's age and address...
...sells and sells. After all, the element of luck has not played a large part in Miss Ferber's career. It was not luck that sold her very first story. It was simply that she was a good reporter, who had turned her reportorial experience into fiction by the process of studying the short stories of others. The Homely Heroine, in the collection Buttered Side Down, was her initial attempt at fiction and, if you will turn to it, you'll find that it's a good story still. She is an honest workman. She respects her craft...
...Originally intended for a graduate college, Johns Hopkins reversed the process gone through by Harvard. It built the roof and then the rest of the house, for it attempted the college for undergraduates only after it had begun graduate work. In medical research it has long been preeminent and I believe that the research methods of the medical school will be extended to all fields of graduate study. For long the universities of the country have prepared men for research and have seen them for-sake that research for industry. Recent endowments of Johns Hokpins will enable it to maintain...
...Young, the Englishman, then spoke, saying, "Business, the all-absorbing, has permeated the English atmosphere as it has the American, but the colleges have not been affected. They may yet be, but it will be by a process opposite to the American. Over here, trade, came before the colleges and grew up with them, particularly in the West. In England the colleges and trade have been mutually exclusive, and business must force its way in. The contest between American and English's colleges is shown by the familiar example of extra-curriculum interests. In America one "works to make" something...