Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Newman's latest tour de force as one of the minor sins of genius. To the rest of the public, including this reader, however, this new novel is as unreadable as the former one; the author has possibly proved that dead lovers are faithful lovers but in the process she has once more given evidence that all sentences are not intelligible sentences, that an esoteric style is frequently an abominable style, and that dull books are bad books...
...instrument specially suitable for studies of the faint Milky Way variable stars. The next new mounting to go south will be that of the new 60-inch reflecting telescope, which is to be the largest astronomical instrument in the southern hemisphere. Both the mirror and the mounting are in process of construction in Pittsburgh, and the mounting will probably be shipped before the end of the calendar year. The new reflector will be devoted to various studies, where great light-gathering power is essential. Among its problems will be the analysis of the spectra of southern nebulae, the determination...
...intimate relationships within the campus group that characterized the colleges of the past and still exist among the smaller ones today will mean, if it is carried to the limit, the elimination of much that is distinctive and enjoyable in university life. But so long as the educational process is not interfered with in the individual, the real contribution of the colleges is in no danger from mere increase in size...
...granite cutters of Aberdeen, the miners of South Africa and Great Britain have surrendered their quota to death by silicosis. These places have their mines and quarries, New York has its blasted tunnels. The growth of fibres around the cell "clumps" is in the nature of a healing process. If the irritation were stopped at this stage the lungs would heal. It is the increasing accumulation of silica particles and the continued growth of fibres that finally cause death. Perhaps the present agitation will move the New York State Legislature to pass the compensation bill it has neglected for four...
...contracts were let to the world potent International Telephone & Telegraph Company, of which U. S. financier and Morgan associate Sosthenes Behn is President. The I. T. & T. is now in process of absorbing the Postal Telegraph and other companies of famed Clarence H. Mackay (TIME, April...