Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raised. An immediate increase in revenue was necessary in order to pay for the battles, sieges and salaries which were necessary for the new southern forces which were combating armless backed by European capital. With the institution of Soong's new budget which abolished the old "farming out" process, the annual income increased to ten times its previous amount, and he gained the absolute confidence of the people for his government...
...America. Its basis is paper so sensitized that hot air will turn it black. A blast of hot air plays through a fine jet on the paper at the receiving end. A jet of cold air controlled by radio signals transmitting the desired picture by the usual radiograph process, modulates the hot air, producing the shading in the received picture. The advantage of magnifying photographs sent by radio: when the picture ig reduced, again to normal size, its details sharpen...
...wise, brilliant comedy; the other, a colorful, throbbing melodrama. In the creation of Love Is Like That, they collaborated. By combining their efforts they seem to have detracted from the ability of both for Love Is Like That tries to impose heroics of romanticism upon comedy of manners, a process automatically self-canceling. What is left are attractive scenery, one or two bits of good acting, a few, isolated, clever lines. Vladimir Dubriski (Basil Rathbone), silky-suave Grand Duke in exile, is tumbled into Manhattan's gaucherie, faced with the dilemma of marrying a bloated divorcee of means...
...approved May 23, 1910, the drastic step was taken which carried this process of reducing the safeguard of capital cases to the final limit. The court shall be held by one of the justices, and when so held shall have and exercise all the power and jurisdiction committed to said court": the section making special provision for capi- tal cases was repealed (Acts and Resolves, 1910, 555). This is the present situation. The General Laws of 1921 simply state that "The court shall be held by one of the justices" (212,2); and that. "The court shall have original jurisdiction...
There are obvious motives favoring this process of reduction in the number of judges. The growing volume of work laid upon our courts, and the increasing costs of criminal procedure, forbid all needless prodigality in the expending of Judicial intelligence on criminal cases. But it is a question of great moment whether, in thus reducing the factor