Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen Gymnasium at 11 o'clock. After being lined up in parade fashion, they were marched by several First National reviewers, some ten of the most handsome and most striking were chosen, and the rest were left to watch the victims perform. Those, who were chosen, after watching the process of make-up being performed on two Brown undergraduates, who had been transported to Cambridge for that purpose, were then asked to remove their coats and prepare themselves for the paint. This latter was most lavishly spread on the physiognomies of the chosen few, in turn, by R. L. Stough...
...houses to be built near this park, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, president of the foundation that owns park, art and building, threatened to move the pictures to the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan, or wherever else they might be properly appreciated, and to fill the limestone edifice with Negroes in the process of being cultivated. The elders of Merion reconsidered their longing for a row of cheap houses...
...pictures can be transmitted in a simple code of numbers and letters and composed like any other text on a linotype. Telegravure is far simpler than telephotography. Telephotography requires costly apparatus to transform pictures into electric impulses, then back to pictures. The transmitted photograph must be engraved. The Ford process starts with a special photographic plate which "screens" the original picture with a mesh of fine crossed lines. The varying tones of black, grey and white-there are about 26 tones in the standard half-tone print-are thus laid out in a pattern like a cross-stitch sampler...
...Paul G. Von Hildebrandt, German-American chemist, with a formula for impregnating a sawdust composition against rain, wear, flame. He can, he says, make fireproof bricks, tiles, sheets, at far less than the present cost of cement and metal. Angling for capital, he promised that the ingredients for his process could all be obtained plentifully within U. S. borders; that he would turn mounds of sawdust into mounds of golddust...
...intends to use the new Star Six as the sill timber of his new structure. For supports, braces and superstructures to this he can furnish other companies that he controls-Durant Motors Inc. (makers of Star and Durant motor cars), American Plate Glass Co., Motors Parts Corp., New Process Gear Co., Warner Corp., Locomobile Co. of America (Locomobiles), Adams Axle Co., Mason Motor Truck...