Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kept the headlines for weeks and provoked an immense amount of discussion all over the country. Especially among scholars and scientists this episode aroused a fine display of indignation. It was looked upon as a throwback to mediaevalism, an attempt to stultify the convictions of men by due process of law. One would think, from the reaction in academic ciroles, that religious belief is the only field in which great bodies of our fellow citizens decline to be guided by science or by history...
Able Ambassador Sheffield referred of course to the "mental process" by which Mexicans, a people nominally nine-tenths Roman Catholic, have embarked upon the extermination of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico. Turning from this psychological paradox to a concrete fact-the apprehension of onetime Mexican Secretary of War Enrique Estrada in California with an "army" of 174 men bound for Mexico (TIME, Aug. 30) -Mr. Sheffield said with emphasis...
Priestley did not know what he had made when he heated red oxide of mercury with a burning glass and collected the atmosphere caused by the process. He labored under an old notion that combustible substances had a constituent, "phlogiston," which departed from them when they burned (as soot, for example). Thus, when he found that a candle burned more brightly, and mice thrived, in the atmosphere created with his container of heated mercuric oxide, he thought this atmosphere was "dephlogisticated air." Fortunately, while touring Europe with a patron, he met the Frenchman, Lavoisier, and told him of his experiment...
Traffic was choked with grieving thousands as his body was taken to the undertaker's, where it underwent the special process that "perpetually preserves" the corpse of Enrico Caruso...
...taken on as a manual laborer. I found work and on Monday, the 14th, I began: eleven hours' work in the day at 32 centesimi the hour. I made 121 journeys with a handbarrow full of stones up to the second floor of a building in process of construction. In the evening the muscles of my arms were swollen. I ate some potatoes roasted upon cinders and threw myself in all my clothes on to my bed: a pile of straw. At five on the Tuesday I woke and returned to work. I chafed with the terrible rage...