Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomatic conundrum, posed by the Chinese Government when it agreed to accept an Ambassador from Russia, was in process of being solved. The Chinese Government wrote to foreign governments and asked them what they were going to do about it, which was a virtual invitation to them to raise the rank of their representation from Ministers to Ambassadors. Replies were awaited...
...according to reports from Pittsburgh, a cheap process of making stainless iron and steel is being tried out in a number of large mills there. The inventor is Ronald Wild, of England. He, his brother A. H. Wild, founder of a large steel concern in Sheffield, and George Pugiley, another Sheffield man, expert in the open-hearth and electric steel processes, are demonstrating the manner of production...
...stunt because the medium lends itself to such palpable imitation of Nature. At present, one Mrs. Calcott of London is experimenting with a new method in wax. "She does not try to make her miniature's lifelike and for that reason is more artistic. . . ." She says of her process that she uses pure White beeswax and melts the color into it. To a large extent she makes her portraits by taking casts of a clay or wax model, particularly because it would be so difficult to keep wax clean in London. Each color must be cast separately, the parts...
Last week the daily press of the U. S. gave extensive publicity to: "MECHANIC BROKE, GIVEN $1,500,000 FOR SECRET. COPPER-HARDENING PROCESS, LOST FOR 2,000 YEARS, BOUGHT BY DETROIT FIRM." An often-found lost art was again discovered by "an obscure mechanic, of little scientific knowledge," who lives in East St. Louis...
...main neither editors nor simple reporters. The names which take greatest rank are those of "correspondents" *the interpretive reporters. They tell what happens and they tell what it means. In the case of the best men, this is done without partisanship. Frequently such men, in the mere process of explaining something, say things far more illuminating than the editorial writers of their sheets...