Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beginning of a situation with the United States similar to that begun with Germany in 1903. It took twelve years for the seed then sown to germinate. Seed may be in the process of sowing at this moment in Switzerland. I hope not, but there is need for great patience on all sides...
...Scientists have been agreed that nature long since ceased making petroleum by subjecting large deposits of organic matter to centuries of subterranean pressure. But Dr. Hans Tropsch of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (Mülheim-an-der-Ruhr, Germany) gave hope that nature is still building oil stores, by another process. Germans have perfected processes of manufacturing synthetic fuel oils by heating carbon (bituminous coal, lignite) in a stream of steam or natural gas, in the presence of certain catalytics including iron. Germany's fuel-oil supply now seems assured as long as her coal lasts. Dr. Tropsch pointed out that...
...Marconi Co. of London last week announced a new creation by Captain Round, one of its engineer-employes. It was a benefit to blindness?a process by which a full-length novel can be recorded on six double-faced, twelve-inch phonograph records. Each record "reads aloud" some 5,000 words, lasting 40 minutes. The blind audience can "turn back" should it drop off to sleep during a dull chapter, or should the reading go too swiftly during a delectable passage...
Captain Round's process provides for reading at normal speed. The Round records have three or four times the usual number of grooves of a twelve-inch record and rotate a third as fast...
...empowered to conserve the state's natural resources. Gypsy Oil Co.† considered that peg too frail; protested at once that the order was unconstitutional because it deprived the company of enjoying the fruits of oil production, because it was discriminatory, because it took property without due process of law. The courts may be called to judgment...