Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reading dreamingly: "In 451 A.D. King Theodoric united his forces with the Romans and defeated Atilla at the Battle of Chalons, thus saving France from the rule of the Huns. For this deed alone European civilization owes a great debt to the brave leader of the Visigoths. The Bessemer process, for making steel without carbon was invented by Henry Bessemer in 1855, and is one of the chief factors behind the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century...
...warm, saturated air rises, it cools at an average of 3 1/2 degrees per 1000 feet. At 5000 feet, the height to which Professor Brooks estimates the air is forced, this cooling process would cause it to lose half its moisture...
...long Army trucks backed up to the spur track to be loaded with the 400-troy-oz. bricks. As each truck was loaded it was convoyed by two of the Seventh Cavalry's combat cars on its brief trip to the squat depository building. Few days later the process was repeated as $120,000,000 was shipped from the U. S. Assay Office in Manhattan...
...under obligation not to make capricious or arbitrary use of its power but to act with restraint and fairness and without a spirit of retaliation. But what if the power companies reject such an approach? . . . Public authorities should not give up any powers of compulsion until a reasonable process of solution has been worked out and well established. . . . But the utilities have a right to know what it is that is asked of them and what are the conditions under which peace might be established. A sovereign government should have policies known to all. . . . I regret to say that...
...Test Fund will be $200 richer. Sponsor Lamb and Chelan Townsendites cannot see how the revolving pension fund can fail to revolve. Just to be sporting, and to overcome the possibility of a fluke on their first try, they are going to choose five more oldsters to repeat the process during the five succeeding months before reporting final results to the waiting world...