Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heat would volatilize the butane; the gaseous butane would run a low-pressure turbine. To condense the butane to liquid, after it had rotated the turbine, he would pass it through brine made from the ocean waters. And so the pumping, power-generating would go on. In theory the process is feasible. In experiment it has proved workable...
...continue as many more. Whether Communism has held its own along with the Bolshevist party is a much more doubtful question, and those capitalists who had most to fear from it and were most active in their attacks against it, are already beginning to hope that by a gradual process of change Russia will slip back to capitalism and with it, the brotherhood of nations. The New Economic Policy, started in 1923 was the first definite indication of this gradual tendency away from the extreme views of Kar! Marx, and the exile of Trotsky, one of the few leaders...
...malicious coincidence found an old lover among Monica's new friends. Monica, quick to recognize the situation, flared into unaccustomed wrath, disrupting the close understanding between Clive and his wife. Only by the deftest handling did she bring them together again, finding in the process a deep affection and necessity for dark Hester...
...process of building the Panama Canal, symbolic of great labor, was painted by Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee), famed Scandinavian-born U. S. artist.* Last week twelve of his paintings were purchased anonymously in Manhattan for presentation to the U. S. Military Academy in memory of the West Pointer who, as chief engineer, was most potent in channeling the isthmus-the late General George W. Goethals...
...during 1928 increased its land holdings from 2,728,000 acres to 5,475,000 acres. President Holmes went from school room to oil company (Standard of New York, 1895), has been identified chiefly with the refining end of the oil industry, is co-inventor of the Holmes-Manley process for "cracking" gasoline...