Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breathe in comfort; and then, almost before one realizes it, the CO2 has begun to act. It makes one sluggish, drowsy, and totally incapable of his best work. Doubtless it explains why we see so many young men indolently gazing off into space while absorbed in the fascinating process of picking their noses; or why there is at every table at least one man quietly asleep...
From this house will each day issue the myriad copies of Hearst's New York Journal (evening) and American (morning). It is alive with rollers, chutes, conveyors to carry copy, proof, type to contact points in the process of rushing news to newsboy. In the "fudge" room stand three linotype machines next to telegraph instruments where telegraphic flashes tell sudden death, discovery, disaster. From the machines, conveyors carry the type galley directly to the presses. News, newspapers think, should be gobbled hot. The American and Journal have every known device to sell it smoking...
...uses of the telegraphone. One may record a steady, even speech of about a half an hour, or he may catch fragments, separating them by brief intervals of silence. At any time the machine may be reversed in order that reproduction may be carried on. But the process of rendering the record audible does not destroy it. Once anyone has spoken into the transmitter a permanent record is set down which may be preserved literally forever. Moreover, the wire may be cut and repaired like moving picture film, with no danger to the machine over which it is revolved...
...wicked. Last week pupil Elizabeth Walker scampered up to Principal Tate saying, "What is the difference between evolution and revolution?" Principal Tate told her what revolution was; told her to look in the dictionary for the other word. Elizabeth Walker did so; she found that it meant, "a process of development." When the class heard this they wriggled on their chairs, frightened. Said one small girl, her big brown eyes very wide open, her voice very hushed: "Evolution means to come from a monkey." Principal Tate answered her quickly: "... a man named Darwin wrote a book about that theory...
...morass in which it now is." 3) "The morass" is overdevelopment: too many mines, too many miners. 4) Left alone, the strongest, operators would survive the present cut-throat competition "at fearful cost to those too weak to survive and with further hardship to labor during the process." 5) President Coolidge has repeatedly suggested setting up a federal board to arbitrate in coal emergencies, but- 6) "As emergency is a chronic state in coal," perhaps such a board had better regulate as well as arbitrate. 7) Perhaps the most advisable step of all would be for the operators to appoint...