Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little roads do not apparently want to be swallowed up- they are quite contented with things as they are. Other little roads feel that they must be absorbed by their stronger competitors, and are mainly concerned with picking a winning swallower and getting guarantees against being bitten in the process. The I. C. C. originally planned for mergers which would develop nine separate systems. The leading railroad men want only four systems. Apparently, agreement is slowly being reached as to the proper way of working out such a merger. Yet the situation is still as complex and interdependent...
Aspdin named his material "Portland cement" because of its resemblance to a type of building stone then commonly quarried on the Isle of Portland. Although the inventor's process has subsequently been improved upon in many ways, the name he gave the product has remained unchanged...
...ballast-recovery process will bring loss of helium to a negligible quantity...
...conclude that all the constructive work of the forty-eight states which have signed the protocol is in vain, so long as the United States stays aloof. "What profits a World Court of International Justice," say these authorities. "If a refractory state, outlawed for refusing to abide by a process of international law, may set the world at defiance by supplying its economic and military needs at American markets...
There is no need of forgetting. I am even inclined to believe that any student who has honestly cultivated "the capacity to use facts and see their relations" will find it impossible to forget the facts themselves. Too often this selective process upon which the writer lays such stress is automatic and signifies only careless work. I refer, by way of contrast, to the English university graduate who does not forget and yet does not find his vision stunted. A recent CRIMSON editorial described vividly one such man "who closed his desk at the War office at four...