Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finishing school in waters rich with food. Such a fashionable spot is Cotuit, Long Island. Here, for the last six months of its life, the oyster gains flavor. Finally, if the oyster is to be shipped great distances, it can be frozen and preserved by the Birdseye process, recently purchased by General Foods...
...catalogue of any American college gives a fair idea of the final steps in the educational process as it is now applied. The student must first concentrate, or major, in one subject, and take several courses in that; then he must distribute, or minor, in other courses, taken from prescribed combinations of subjects. The first will make him profound; the second will make him broad. In most cases, however, he must have studied a certain amount of Latin or Greek, to make him classical, and modern languages in certain combinations to make him erudite...
When he emerges from the stages of this process and receives the imprint of a college degree--behold, the Greek ideal, healthy mind in healthy body, and both as well rounded...
...inevitability of this process is a bitter pill to swallow for those few members of our own civilization that appreciate the true values lying beneath the chaos that prevails in China today. But with transportation and communication as far developed as they are now this Westernization cannot be long delayed, and it may be consoling to the friends of China that it may turn out for the best. For the Golden Age of the Empire is a thing of the past and if the country that still treasures its remains is to enjoy the benefits that a younger culture...
...When a bar of iron is placed inside a coil through which a current is flowing it becomes magnetized. The bar of iron when magnetized acquires, like the compass needle, poles north and south. When the current reverses, the poles change places-not instantaneously but with a delay. The process of delay is called the Law of Hysteresis...