Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recommendation: "That the process of subpoena or any other process of the court should never be used to secure preferential admission of any person or spectator; that such abuse of process be punished as contempt...
...course the process of weeding out students before they enter a given academic training rather than after they have tried and made a mess of it cannot be foolproof. Not all the new students who heard the cheering message yesterday will see the course through to the end. But the record of this fall's entering class will be watched with interest. For if the experiment of selective admission works out as well in the Law School as it does in other divisions of the University, it should mark the beginning of a new era of improvement at Langdell Hall...
There still exists a good deal of controversy about how evolution works, but even old Sir Edward cannot remember back to the time when the evolution process itself was attacked by reputable scientists. However, smoke from the old battle of Lamarckism v. Natural Selection has not yet finally cleared. Lamarckism is the theory that acquired characteristics can be inherited, that some profit from experience can be passed on to succeeding generations as a sort of protoplasmal memory. Natural Selection holds that accidental variations which happen to be favorable to the organism will be preserved by the survival of the fittest...
...bubble gum, but for eight years it has been the most popular, and comprises at least 60% of that delicacy now sold in the U. S. It is concocted in Philadelphia by Gum, Inc., which occupies five floors and the basement of a building on Woodland Avenue. The Blony process and Gum, Inc., are both creations of one of Philadelphia's lustiest characters, burly, brown-eyed Jacob Warren Bowman, whose business adventures have been many and remarkable...
Mushrooms, he learned, are fungi developed from spores which float in the air, too small to be seen by the naked eye. By a process still kept secret, he isolated mushroom spores in little bottles where they developed into spawn in a mixture of sifted manure. Nowadays the Jacob laboratories sell these whitish-brown lumps for 50? a quart ready for planting. The Jacob plant gets most of its manure which must be from "horses which are working hard and fed with grain and mixed feeds only," from Philadelphia and Baltimore, pays about $6.50 per ton, uses 20,000 tons...