Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began Franklin Roosevelt last week in one more of his unfailingly intimate, persuasive radio heart-to-hearts with the nation. The sarcasm of his opening crack was a key to his mood. A second key, politics, was in his fifth sentence: "As part of the democratic process, your President is again taking an opportunity to report ... to the real rulers of this country-the voting public...
...source of a geyser's energy is supposed to be hot volcanic rock not far from the earth's surface, and the eruption is a self-accelerating physical process. The geyser's tube or pipe fills up with ground water or rain water. At the lower end it is heated by the rock. Because of the pressure of the water column, the temperature rises above the normal boiling point before steam is liberated. Once steam begins to form against the pressure, it raises the column, spilling water on top. This reduces the pressure below so that steam...
...screen is the work of Scophony Ltd., owners of a new process for projecting television pictures as though they were films. The method of freeing the picture from the limitations of the cathode tube is Scophony's secret, but they have a screen going into London's new Monseigneur News Theatre in Baker Street. Scophony's Director Solomon Sagall has promised full-sized cinema screen television for all theatres of England's Odeon Circuit by year's end. Test showings of Scophony projections have excited televisionists...
Copyright law protects BBC television programs from being exhibited to paying audiences. So, to have something to show his incipient spectators, Mr. Sagall will have to use his revolutionary new projection process as a lever either to force BBC to supply programs or to induce Parliament to license an independent program service...
...action affect it. Upon his job he imposes the ideas he has formulated in college, and if he has an altruistic interest in his country's future, he will try to use his education so that it benefits the place in which he works. For many graduates the process of translating education into practical terms, which makes it useful to society, can be most wisely done in their home community. It is ideal that when ready to enter the business world, the graduate turn home rather than to some new community. The farm boy, for instance who settles in Wall...