Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the U. S. Supreme Court killed it. The venerable Justice Van Devanter wrote the decision: "Such a system infringes the liberty of contract and rights of property guaranteed by the due process of law clause of the 14th Amendment." [A citizen shall not be deprived of "life, liberty, or property without due process...
...fleshy, usually highly-colored process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile...
...Dravrah. The most remarkable unanimity exists among the Prophezzors. They all say, "Yes, we are educating men," and each one convinces me for the moment that his own work is the principal cog in the machine. But when I push my question further and ask just what this important process is which they call "education" no two of them agree...
...lecture, there in a book, or yonder among their fellows. Our job is to give them a shock now and then and stimulate the endogenous development that each one must supervise for himself. That is all we can do, and when we try to do more, we hinder the process...
...work of the Social Service Committee, being the part of Phillips Brooks House which holds the warmest place in the regard of the University, must be more than a mere process of weeding the sheep from the goats. When this has been done, some hundreds of men, rather less than more, are left who have a sincere interest in the work in which they are about to engage. From the earliest possible moment, this initial interest must be stimulated, sustained, and strengthened, in order that the untried worker may survive the discouragements which are inevitably his first portion...