Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...process of holding them, Yale football men at New Haven added $1,015,705.31 to the University Athletic Association this past fiscal year. This fortune, considered the most money ever collected by a college box office, paid for every other sport at Yale. The net surplus...
...Last Command" Emil Jannings plays the role of the Grand Duke Sergius Alexandria, own cousin to the Czar, and commander of the Russian Army. The action of the play takes place near the Russian battle lines in 1917, when the revolution was in process of engulfing the power of the Czar. Jannings plays a heroic figure without any glozing or sentimentality. The Grand Duke, according to our lights, is not an admirable fellow in his daily life. Strike him ever so lightly and you find the Tartar said to lurk in all Russians. He is possessed with high spirits without...
...railways and canals, thus increasing the difficulty of getting U. S. food shipments through intact to starving civilian Chinese. In such circumstances famine relief can be only a desperate stop-gap measure, which must try to save simply "as many lives as possible" until China settles down politically, a process sure to require many heart-breaking years...
...process by which Belvedere facsimiles are produced is a carefully guarded secret. In outline, it consists of a combination of photography succeeded by a chemical process which echoes, to microscopic detail, upon a similar material and in most cases a surface of the same size, the colors of the original. The effect, while it has none of the impersonal cold quality of a copy or print, misses being a duplicate of its original by the same distinction that makes a phonographic reproduction, however much perfected, not necessarily inferior to but indubitably different from its model. Facsimiles are not however intended...
...process by which the plates are being made is one similar to that employed by makers of wood-cuts before the days of half-tones. The plates are to be finished in a series of handwork which, in the opinion of connoisseurs, will make them excellent samples of blue Staffordshire, and valuable from the collector's standpoint...