Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michael Owens, backed by Edward Libbey, invented the automatic bottle-making machine, formed Owens Bottle Machine Co., now Owens-Illinois. Another inventor, one Irving Colburn, hadi invented an improved method of making glass sheets. Messrs. Libbey and Owens bought the Colburn patents, improved the process, went into the flat glass business. But they kept bottles & windows in two separate corporate packages and the only connection today between Libbey-Owens-Ford and Owens-Illinois is the name of the late, great Mike Owens...
...This has been a difficult and uncertain process which held no hope for a permanent solution of a dangerous financial problem. It was therefore decided by all concerned that it would be advisable to put our athletic program on the game basis as the other activities of the University...
...Schoolboys often outstrip routine work in the Freshmen year. There should be frank anticipation of the college course, with the view to shortening the latter, for youth's brain power is underestimated and the process of education before settlement into a gainful occupation and marriage has been slow and long. The prolonged period of infancy characteristic of the human species has been safeguarded to the detriment of the species...
Strike Me Pink (Samuel Goldwyn). In the process of establishing himself as a Hollywood reincarnation of Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer Sam Goldwyn, who says he does not care how much a picture costs so long as it pleases Mrs. Goldwyn, expended more than usual pains on Strike Me Pink. He had the script, made from a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Budington Kelland, worked over by 14 writers in teams of two. He cut out a $100,000 dance sequence because it made the picture too long. He added a $75,000 episode to the plot because it made...
...interested in as we view the picture are the mental process of the individual who committed the murder, a part played brilliantly by Peter Lorre; and the patience and cunning displayed by the police inspector (Edward Arnold) in allowing the crime to solve itself. All the scenes in which these two accomplished actors come face to face, are gripping exemplifications of dramatic art at its best...