Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America formed a dismal prospect. Yet no more dismal than the prospects of Ouimet, when he faced his last five holes through the rain in the famous championship at Brookline years ago. He did then what was considered the impossible, and yesterday he and his team-mates repeated the process...
...common fallacy of the classroom that a lesson can be learned by a comprehensive knowledge of its salient features, without regard to the medium used for its expression. The movement of educational opinion away from former methods of studying by rote has helped to foster this abstract and general process of assimilation. In theory, the movement has been a good one since it was hitherto possible to parrot the word of the text with no knowledge of the lesson itself. But there are also distinct disadvantages which have led to a more careless interpretation of the subject matter involved...
...system which should prove invaluable to humanity. In a "What's Wanted" book are to be published suggestions as to inventions needed by the world, for the guidance and inspiration of future Edisons. Already a terrifying collection has been accumulated, including "practical ways of utilizing the tides", "a process to make fiannel unshrinkable", and "glass that will bend". Although this last commodity has been put on the market before, it has failed to make a place for itself along with "Pyrex" and pop-bottles, and so it is up for election again...
...this episode, there appears the story of a man who claims to have experienced the sensation of dying enough times to have exhausted the resources of a cat. He defines dying as "the process of passing from that quickened consciousness we term life into that black borderland which, so far as we know, edges eternity". Then, in an article written just before an operation which proved fatal to him, he tells of the various ways in which he had previously met death:--by falling down an elevator shaft, from the effects of a mine explosion, from a shell-wound, from...
This last fact seems to be true of the yarn-spinner. The writer who takes his trade seriously as art with a capital " A " finds the process of creating a masterpiece onerous. Take Joseph Conrad, for example, who made a statement on his arrival here, or was so quoted, that he had never learned to enjoy writing. But the raconteur, whose one guide is a brilliant imagination who lets his only guide be the swift telling of a tale of life, love, mystery and the complications along the side lines. That must be real...