Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engaged is the idea that they are being educated; if they thought so, many would run, not walk, to the nearest exit. But the fact remains. Here, cramming is rare; tutoring schools, so incredible as to be ridiculous; ghost-writing, pointless. Here is the "essence of the educational process" which "furnishes the student with the tools to learn and the will to know...
...within 50 miles of either Seattle or Tacoma hundreds of millions of tons of coking coal with stronger coking properties than any coal in either Indiana, Ohio or Illinois, and just as good as the coking coal of Pennsylvania only a little higher in ash, but for the electrometallurgical process a little more ash does not interfere with the processing...
...said, to tell in their own words what the contemporaries thought or printed about it (Nicolay & Hay, Lamon, Herndon and the other biographers bearing witness among hundreds less known), and to let his own extraordinary insight play upon the record. As an incidental part of this process, he brings to life the principal political, journalistic and military figures that surrounded Old Abe from his first week in Washington to the end. His extended portrait of Charles Sumner, for example, is masterly...
...Russia, her brutal action will tend to clarify the general nature of her policy, problematical though it remains, and clarify at the same time the attitude of America toward her. She is now in the process of regaining the second piece of territory taken from her in the Versailles treaty, and with the more gradual domination of the little Baltic sea-coast states, it is clear she intends to regain as much of her lost territory as possible. As she becomes a great Baltic power again, she appears more like the Imperialistic Russia of old than a new Communist Union...
Yesterday the team went over the final hump as far as hard practices are concerned. From now on there will be a gradual tapering off process as the Crimson gridmen put on the finishing preparation touches for their objective game of the year...