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Word: procession (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first try in Technicolor is a saucy farce with three attractive attributes: 1) provocative Eurasian-looking Merle Oberon cutting the comic corners with all her curves and fast ones; 2) a top-flight British cast; 3) Technicolor. Aside from that used in animated cartoons, most Technicolor is a prettifying process that sets great store on being called "unobtrusive." Lady X's Technicolor is consciously as obtrusive as possible, jumped on production cost to $1,2000,000. When the scene opens on a nasty London night, Technicolor sets the mood with blinking Bovril and Schweppe signs through a dank yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buy British | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Behn Riggs '41 announced today his invention of bubbleless ice. The process involves boiling water and then freezing it in an aluminum container...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bubblesless Ice | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

...much overrated pleasure to be transported back to the nineteenth century. And it is unfitting, I think, that the Boylston-Wade Contest should be the agent of such a process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

...floor, where he found himself at an impasse with a series of bound volumes of the New York Herald Tribune. So he wended, or wound, his way back up the four flights, out the delivery desk, and down to the main floor again, and found the elevator by the process of elimination and antagonization, being then 20 minutes late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/29/1938 | See Source »

Harvard, long the seat of COMMUNIST teaching, has its finger in this new pie. It allegedly humorous magazine has devised an insidious process of MANUFACTURING Orientals by feeding them bum rum. Experimenting on themselves, the periodical's staff are now in Stillman, YELLOW AS BANANAS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YELLOW PERIL | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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