Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centres of New York City, Chicago. Boston. Philadelphia, San Francisco and institutions in smaller towns. He studied history, economics and folkways, wrote home poetic letters on the bright beauty of New England autumn, the "whiplash" of Colorado winds. He found the U. S. "a great world, a gigantic historical process, strange and alluring," and felt that medicine's centre of gravity was shifting from Germany to the U. S. So he finally decided to settle down at Hopkins...
...product of that excitement, fully described for the first time this week in FORTUNE, is a new process for deriving gasoline from crude oil rather than from lignite. It will not insure France's fuel supply but it seems likely to crack the oil-refining industry as wide open as oil refiners crack crude...
...grounds that colleges dedicated to those ends, like Tuskegee, did not produce leaders." But while education does furnish a few middle class professional men, it can not drop the barriers of prejudice. Buck said that he was acquainted with college graduates working as porters, victims of the process of segregation...
...that it takes 432 pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John Wesley's own life is leavened by what Author Douglas calls his "process of orientation" to Lan Ying ("orchid"), an American girl brought up as a Chinese...
...streams Dow Chemical Co. pumps brackish water, produces aspirin, phenol, ammonia, chlorine. From the vast Pacific, Great Western Electro-Chemical Co. dredges salt, manufactures liquid chlorine, caustic soda, caustic potash. In a corporate chemical reaction last month these two companies decided to combine. Last week their stockholders approved the process. Catalyst of the consolidation was Willard Henry Dow, elder son of the late, great Chemist Herbert Henry Dow. No chemical genius but an efficient business executive, Willard Dow graduated from University of Michigan in 1919, went to work for his father as a department head, succeeded him as president eight...