Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Voice Pictures, A photographic process made visible the breath of genius that distinguishes opera singers from the bulls of Bashan. A mechanically perfect singer, resting precisely on every note, would give a chart in straight lines. McCormack, Case, Melba, . Farrar and peers, singing Annie Laurie, produced charts in wavy lines, undulated by pitch and intensity-Dr. C. E. Seashore, Iowa State University...
...insistent young man, Loafer concluded by declaring that "the monotony of the educational process"?that is, lectures-"makes the very buildings in which they take place inane, anonymous...
Wood Alcohol. German manufacturers of synthetic methanol (wood alcohol), from water gas, threaten the $100,000,000 hardwood distillation industry of the U. S. with extinction. Germans have also manufactured liquid motor fuels by a similar process, which consists in passing a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen over a catalytic agent at fairly high temperature and very high pressure.?Dr. Franz Fischer, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Mulheim, Ruhr, Germany...
Radio Cinema. A "primastic ring" made a tiny point of light travel across a photographic plate in a succession of parallel adjacent lines, the strength of the light varying with the strength of incoming radio signals?a process much like that used by grandmothers in producing the image of a penny by blacking with their pencils a paper pressed over a coin. Result: wireless photography. Prophecies: the auditor of a radio account of a baseball game, or of an inaugural address, or of a scouting aviator's running report, would some day see the players, the President, the battle...
...additional difficulty arises from the fact that most of the bills recently put into circulation have been "green," not "cured" money. In order to stand rough usage, bills require a seasoning process which takes time, and which of late has had to be largely omitted. As a result, the life of the average bill recently issued is only four months, thus increasing the demands on the Bureau...