Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roots the existing club system had taken in Princeton life. In order to win to his plan the club members, especially the graduate members, he proposed an involved and never completely formulated plan whereby "the clubs should gradually allow themselves to be absorbed into the University by the natural process of becoming themselves residential quads, and so retaining their historical identify at the same time that they showed their devotion to the University by an act of supreme sacrifice." How them, should selections be made? There is the obvious objection that all the evils of the club system would...
...munificent Harkness gift to Harvard seems likely to hasten a process already going on--namely, the fronting of the university upon the Charles river...
...Pennsylvania (William Wallace Atterbury, president) had the biggest, best-integrated, and most strategically located system of the district. It had control of the Wabash and almost half the stock of the Lehigh Valley. Most significantly it was in process of establishing itself in the public mind as the eastern railroad. This it was doing by institutional advertising and by pushing new railroad features, as electrification, air-rail transportation...
This is all that any Congressman needs to know about the mathematics of apportionment in order to protect himself and his state against any injustice in the matter of representation. There is a short-cut process of computation used by the experts in the Bureau of the Census to turn out, in two or three hours, a correct apportionment of any number of representatives on the basis of any given populations of the states; but this is a matter of technical detail. The result is the important thing, and the result can always be checked up, in case...
...testing process consists of tying a handkerchief before the eyes of the participant, and then giving him three or four brands of popular cigarettes to smoke in succession, among which is an Old Gold. The object of the test is to see if the contestant can pick this one out of the rest. If he does, he wins, and his face appears on the back covers of magazines. If he doesn't he is put out of the trials and disqualified...