Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worked alternately at manual work, agriculture and designing in mining districts between Mexico and Alaska. He improved the process of washing gold. He spent one winter in a hut on an island in the Arctic to study a project for installing a hydro-electric plant. After many years of this practical mining, he founded a firm of engineers specializing in construction of shafts and mining plants. His four big mining ventures were successful; two in Colorado?"Tomboy" and "Smugglers Union"; and two in California?"Plymouth"and "Mountain...
...only save some of them from waste, the waste I went through, the waste of spirit I see everywhere about me in our life today, I shall be content. I don't know that it can be done, that waste is not inherent, inevitable, in the process of living, but it is worth the effort...
...same time, however, although this deduction is hardly flattering to the so called educated classes, it simply means that a gradual reversal of class position is in progress; and not that education, which is imperishable, is in process of degeneration. If short cuts are to be made in order that lack wits may appear intelligent, someone with the necessary knowledge must perform the informedary steps. And since this is so, those who view with alarm may effect that it should not be long before the workers refuse to enrich the puppets any further, and proceed to assert their intellects...
...which conditions of membership should obligate subscribing to the principle that High School officials assume responsibility for control and conduct of athletic sports. Members should further agree that amateur sports be utilized in such a way that they might contribute in the largest possible manner to the whole educational process. The welfare of the pupil is to be considered before the advancement of school prestige...
...those who have emerged from that untutored age usually take a craftsman's delight in puzzling out the jumble of vowels and consonants that represent primitive grunts and groans. Even if by simplification English could become the world's language a vigorous cry must be raised against such a process...