Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Section 140 of the Criminal Code (which makes it a crime to assault or wound an officer serving a process) should be extended to include the killing of such an officer?an act against which there is now no Federal...
...process of reclaiming the marsh land on Soldiers Field has forced Dennis Enright, caretaker of the grounds, to spend all week pumping water into the Charlesbank hockey rinks. The drains laid to fix the marsh have probably drained the rinks also, since it has been feared for some time that they are in a leaky condition...
...static is eliminated and the device can be worked at all hours of the day and night. When the light portions of the negative appear, these dots follow each other so rapidly that they produce a dash. These impulses of even intensity are picked up and by a reverse process set to work making sketches. The recording device is double-a fountain pen records the sketches; and a photographic device registers the picture anew on a negative. Strangely enough, the pen draws pictures that at the present stage of development give better ideas of the original than the photographic reproduction...
...Radio Corporation, philosophized: "As we study the forward marches of science and their effect of steadily shrinking the world to what will ultimately become a single, big community of fellow humans, we must admit the growing necessity for the development of a universal language. Until this new process is worked out in its tedious way and accepted by the nations of the world, photoradiograms, which speak the truly universal language of pictures, will go far to bridge the gap that different latitudes and tongues have interposed between the peoples of this sphere on which we live...
...build our railways, are now applying to Wall Street investment banking houses for loans to improve and extend their own railroad systems. One of the basic ideas in the Experts' Plan was to extract reparation payments from the German state-owned railways. As a preliminary step to this process, however, the German roads needed working capital to place them on a money-making basis. Altogether about $15,000,000 was needed. International conferences between London and Manhattan bankers ensued. Finally arragements were made to secure a third of this sum by floating a sterling loan in London under...