Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told the Dresden artisans to go ahead. First, the skeleton of a young Dresden woman, killed in an accident, was treated with preservative, covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other organs were taken from corpses, made transparent by a secret process, dyed, photographed in color, enlarged, projected on a screen in three dimensions. From these projections artists made tracings which were used by sculptors to model the organs which actually went into the figure. The viscera as well as the glassy frame of the transparent woman are made of a material called cellhorn...
...keep their weight down, Dutch swimmers train on beans, go in heavily for dancing. That this process is eminently successful, Dutch trainers feel to be conclusively proved by the fact that Swimmer Mastenbroek, whose hobby is cooking, weighs a mere 150 Ib. while 18-year-old Willy den Ouden, until last week rated the world's ablest girl free-style swimmer, as yet shows few signs of outgrowing her 242-lb. mother...
Social equality "for Negroes, in the abstract, is achieved in the North by the simple process of passing laws guaranteeing Blacks the right to demand admission to all theatres, hotels, restaurants, beauty parlors, etc. New York, Illinois and Ohio have long had such laws against Jim Crowism. Pennsylvania got one when Democratic Governor Earle took office (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). But nowhere, as most intelligent Negroes admit, art: such laws consistently enforced against the strong but silent sentiment of the White majority opposed to close social contact with Blacks. When a bumptious blackamoor attempts to invoke such a statute...
...purchase of the welding process," said he, "does not mean that industry is to be altered at once. . . . Where I have been paid in a handful of millions, industry, particularly the steel industry, is saving countless millions by not having to scrap an enormous amount of equipment. ... I have no illusions as to why my patents were bought: not to change the industrial world, but to keep it at a status...
...years ago Promoter Clarke pledged his precious Pusco shares for a measly $2,000,000 loan from the old Dawes bank in Chicago. He never saw them again. In the process of liquidating the notorious $90,000,000 Dawes loan, they ended up in Jesse Jones...