Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, the Washington Conference cannot make an end of war by the mere process of reducing armaments, no matter how greatly, and if furthermore it cannot eradicate the causes of war, how is it to be successful? The parties to the Conference must realize that if we are to have permanent peace, each nation must be willing to sacrifice its own interests to a certain extent for that end. The United States, for example, cannot expect France to lay down its arms unless it has some guarantee against the to her very real threat of Germany. In other words, there...
...annual meeting of the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs show that during the past year the organization increased the stipend of its annual scholarship to $500 by doubling the dues levied on constituent clubs. By notifying 260 New England schools of this change and by simplifying the process of application for the scholarship, James Roger Shields '25, of East Jaffrey, N. H., was selected from among more than 50 applicants...
...service suffered a similar depletion. Even the schools were robbed of some of their pupils. The unusual demand for labor also drew into industry multitudes of people, mostly women, who normally are not wage earners at all. The present situation is in part a reversal of the whole shifting process, and this is disagreeable. A properly balanced economic system in peace time requires that some of the factory workers shall find their way back onto the farms and into the homes and schools. Some will remain unemployed for a time before they will accept this...
...Shapley's lecture at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory last night, where he gave the last of a series of talks on Cosmogony. His address dealt mainly with the question of the evolution of the stars. The evolution of the sun as one of the stars followed, and during this process came the birth of the planets of which the Earth...
...ballot, according to the charter of the class" We answer: Simply because they realize the hopeless impotence of their isolated votes as compared with the united vote of those gentlemen who know, or think they know, the popular candidates. Furthermore, they do not wish to go through the tedious process of circulating a petition and soliciting signatures...