Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possibility of sending the prisoners to the prison hospital and there forcibly feeding them. It was recalled that in 1923 Mr. Sacco went on a hunger strike that lasted for more than a month, but gave up his starvation idea after having once been subjected to the forcible-feeding process (TIME, March 3, 1923). The hunger-strike is a protest against the secrecy of the investigations and began after a visit from Mrs. Sacco, whose account of her interview with Governor Fuller (TIME, July 25) apparently indicated that the Governor was not disposed to interfere with the due operation...
...credit" system is the object of a particularly pointed attack by Dr. William Setchel Learned of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in a paper on "The Quality of the Educational Process in the United States and in Europe" in the Foundation's current bulletin. Dr. Learned contrasts the disciplined convergence upon a single field, in European scholarship, with the dissipation of energy and attention permitted in U. S. classrooms, where Humorist Stephen Leacock pretended to find a student "taking Turkish, music and architecture not because he meant to be choirmaster in a Turkish cathedral but because...
...newspapers - a few of them being our local newspapers, the remainder of them, newspapers representing all the news types in New York City. I also read the last issues of Harper's, Forum and Critical Survey, in an effort to see just how much you eliminated in your process of condensation and just what your rejected material consisted of. After spending four hours, I came to the conclusion that TIME is a brilliant idea and that those who choose its material are certainly able writers. I am a university student, and have use for such "source" as TIME gives...
...cancer sore and operated slowly for varying periods up to two days. The long negative is developed and a positive film made. When the reel is projected on a screen the cancer cells, magnified, are seen spreading, moving, creeping, quite like budding flowers seen in slow motion pictures. The process is expected to reveal to cancer searchers many an unknown detail of the disease...
...little known anthracite coal deposits of Rhode Island and Massachusetts will furnish local coal to New England this winter, said Arthur Dehon Little, Cambridge, Mass., research chemist last week. The New England anthracite is very difficult to burn and contains 33% ash. But after treating by the "Trent" process it can be made low in ash, free burning and smokeless...