Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are few conventions of any sort at the University, and those that have survived the long sifting process deserve to be enforced. The tradition of the Cap and Gown is a worthy one to preserve. It has been bequeathed to scholars of the present by scholars of past centuries, and in spite of occasional rebuffs, such as the opinion of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the apparent disregard of Harvard Seniors, it is likely to survive for some time to come even after June twenty-first...
...addition to perfecting a new process for making and vulcanizing cord tires, Chairman C. B. Seger of the U. S. Rubber Co. announced a new and superior method of obtaining crude rubber itself for general purposes...
Formerly all crude rubber was obtained from the rubber trees by coagulating the sap or " latex" with either smoke or chemicals; inevitably this method left impurities in the product, and sometimes when acids were employed valuable qualities of the original latex were destroyed. But by the new process, the latex is sprayed into a snow-white mist which, placed in contact with superheated air, is deprived of its water, but nothing else. Thus " sprayed rubber" is absolutely pure virgin rubber, remains dry indefinitely, is much stronger than ordinary "crude rubber " and-unlike the latter-is completely uniform in quality...
...various other factors which enter into weather forecasting," Mr. Clayton said, "this method of predictions will not be applicable for long periods in advance until scientists can determine in advance what will happen on the sun. In the Argentine, however, they are now making very accurate forecasts by this process for periods of as much as eight days, and it is safe to assume that, as this system becomes improved it will be employed generally in forecasting work all over the world...
...class suffers so much as the farmer from the bane of surplus supplies", Professor Sprague declared. "This is true for two reasons. In the first place, farming produce cannot be exported easily because it will spoil in the process. Secondly, the farmer cannot suspend, operations as do the large steel or coal corporations, until the prices rise and even if he could, the farming class is so numerous that prices as a whole would be affected little by one man's attempt to decrease the output. The general wheels of 'up or down' are hard on the farmer because...