Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five Step. Mr. White himself momentarily joins the cast to exhibit this gyration, recalling days when he was an humble hoofer** for his now greatest rival, Florenz Ziegfeld. This innovation is second only, in importance, to the appearance in the pit of Mr. Wynn leading the orchestra, in which process his back begins to itch-something that well trained conductors' backs never do. But Mr. Wynn's does, and he scratches...
From the relatively simple process of announcing bedroom story-tellers and weather reports on the regular studio program, Announcer McNamee has assumed a position of national prominence. Inevitably, he has had much criticism. Sports experts grumble that he does not know the sport he is describing. Radio executives answer that neither do most of the listeners; that colorful, general reports are more satisfying to the masses than accurate technical descriptions. Sports experts, particularly fight listeners, agree that with seeing many fights and football games his knowledge is increasing...
...Matthews Halls has now been dispelled in favor of a modern one. For during the summer, these two old dormitories have been the victims of the carpenter's hammer and the plasterer's tools, in the University's campaign to amelio-rate the living conditions of the students. The process of renovation has been thorough. New hardwood floors, a feature of the remodeling program, have replaced the worn boards that used to creak with the footsteps of the great. Steel staircases have been installed in place of their noisy wooden predecessors, and this step is expected to do much towards...
When one has once accepted this extremely politic stand the remainder of his ruminations follow in a much more logical and scientific manner. The root of this presumed evil lies, obviously, in too inclusive entrance methods; therefore Mr. Angell advances various aids to the enforcement of a selective process. Most of those listed by him have been tried with a greater or less degree of success. One thing is certain--Mr. Angell endorses such a pruning of registration lists but while doing so he also realizes that there can be no wholesale method. Each institution must adjust its own mechanics...
Many an employe, going about his tasks in a manufactory where mercury heating is in process, has found himself suffering unaccustomed ailments. His eyes glaze with fever. Dysentery sets in. The dentist cautions him against pyorrhea, for his teeth are loosening. Finally the doctor orders him to give up work for a long vacation in the country and he recovers. What has occurred in such cases is an insidious mercurial poisoning, the result of inhaling mercury vapors escaped from leaking seams in the apparatus. The illness may be a long time coming or a short time. Mercury is cumulative...