Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the wiping process began in earnest when six diplomatic notes simultaneously changed hands at Shanghai, between Nationalist Foreign Minister Huang-Fu and the U. S. Minister to China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray. Nanking promised in substance that: 1) reparation will be made to U. S. citizens who suffered when the city was captured; 2) the Chinese who looted and in one instance murdered will be punished, and, 3) hereafter, U. S. citizens will enjoy protection and security in Nanking...
This annual concentration meeting is an essential and very valuable preliminary to the process of picking future fields of study which will engross the Freshman mind for the next month. But it is only a preliminary. Consultations, advice, decisions, reconsiderations, and more decisions will follow each other in rapid succession until five o'clock on May 2 and the threat of a five dollar fine finally bring the doubtful to a decision...
...process of choosing a field of concentration fortunately, however, does not end here. Many Freshmen with no strong predilections one way or another are forced to make a blind choice between they know not what. A few of these will spend two years feeling vaguely that all is not well, until they suddenly realize in their Senior year that History instead of Anthropology is the field for their particular talents, or that their real interest lies in Fine Arts rather than Economics. Many more, however, will try one field, find out what the tutorial system really is, and before...
...favorable subjects to induce a definite anaesthesia so that no pain was felt (TIME, Nov. 14). Almost any willing subject can be hypnotized, but the best patients are those already suffering from some mental or physical shock, or some habit which has already weakened their resistance. Hypnotism is a process of mental dissociation during which all activity is quiescent; no desire, no antagonism, no conflict. In this condition any suggestion registers powerfully and will be carried into action either at the moment, or after the hypnosis is over and forgotten, according to the commands of the operator. The cure...
...York Telegram is in the process of creating a Mr. Fixit. It has been suggested by many an apartment dweller that his first duty be the invention of a noiseless...