Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specific rights of his own territory? How are the great arguments pro and con the freeing of the slaves to be expressed through the medium of sight? Obviously, such qualities as sight cannot reproduce must perforce be omitted from such a history. In science, where an exact process is performed before the camera, such a course is reasonable and commendable. Equally, when in the field of art, a picture must be reproduced to show to the many, the system works, since the visual is the only quality to be taken into consideration. But in the field of history the visual...
...Mojave Desert, Kern County, Calif., a kernite* mine has been discovered which will revolutionize the borax industry, according to Dr. Waldemar T. Schaller of the U. S. Geological Survey. When washed and recrystallized, kermite is ready for market as pure sodium borate. All previous processes of manufacturing borax have been costly, complicated, unsatisfactory. Italy has condensed volcanic steam containing boric acid to get it; Chile has refined and purified ulexite at great expense; the U. S. has mined borax from mineral deposits around Death Valley, a process dangerous and difficult; or has manufactured it from brine, a method in excellent...
Other speakers in the series include John W. Davis, Charles Evens Hughes, Hon. '10, Louis Marshall, and Henry W. Taft. Dean Pound's subject on May 8 will be, "Due Process...
Statistics may help to show the phenomenal increase in the business. In 1920 there were about 100,000 radio "lans", while in 1927 there were 25,000,000. Radio is so efficient that the phonograph companies use radio tubes in the process of making records. Moreover, radio receiving apparatus is now used to record cable messages...
...without creating the impressions that the results obtained are to be regarded as a criterion of the educational efficacy of the two colleges the cause of undergraduate scholarship in both should be greatly benefited; if not, a new distortion of values in the American college will be in the process of development...