Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Science helped settle the Muscle Shoals question by making obsolescent that process of fertilizer manufacture which requires water power to make the nitrates. Nebraska's Norris, who fought the farmers' fight in the Senate, wound up by admitting that Muscle Shoals fertilizer would probably not be cheap enough. The measure he pressed and got passed last winter dealt chiefly with Muscle Shoals water power, leaving the Department of Agriculture to experiment with fertilizer as a byproduct. The Senate voted for Government operation when persuaded that a Power Lobby had gone to extreme lengths to oppose...
Within two days ten billion francs ($400,000,000) of new money flowed in; and six billion francs in other government securities were exchanged for the new issue. Since this latter process-"consolidation" of previous higher interest bearing securities into the new loan-was the end chiefly sought by Prime Minister Poincaré, he announced on the second day of scrambling that no further cash subscriptions would be accepted, but welcomed further conversion which continued steadily all week...
...Harvard may properly be said to rely on neither of these expedients; the student is confronted with thoroughly college methods at the beginning of his Freshman year and left largely to work out his own adjustment to them. While the gain in self reliance and educational maturity of this process is manifest, the difficulties involved are nevertheless great enough to prevent some Freshmen ever emerging from them at all, and to subject many others to a period of disheartening struggle...
...posthumous fame. The Caruso corpse, however, has not moldered in the earth, nor has any worm yet tunneled the golden passage of its throat. Like the late Nikolai Lenin (among all famed contemporaries the only other one) the body of the great singer has been subjected to a process of embalmment which will preserve the natural contour of his face and figure for, it is alleged, 100 years. At first, when he was put to rest in the Caruso chapel in the Naples Cemetery, his visage was exposed to view, for any strangers to. see. Six months ago, however...
...landscape dominated by a few peaks of great attainments, but as a stream which is flowing constantly onward, running faster, perhaps, at some times than at others. Evolution is the central theme of his book, and he selects for treatment those salient facts which testify to the evolutionary process. This choice limits the range of factual discussion, and the principle governing the choice distinguishes the book from other works which try to compress much into little...