Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from an undeserved sojourn on Devil's Island with a handy means of vengeance on the men who put him there. His weapon is a discovery made by a fellow prisoner (Henry B. Walthall) of a way to reduce people to one-sixth of their size. Heretofore the process, which has been used only for such playful purposes as reducing St. Bernard dogs to the size of Chow pups, has had the effect on humans of reducing their minds commensurately with their bodies, making the resultant peewees almost witless. The scientist eliminates this flaw in his discovery, and Lavond...
...approximate the colors with which pious artisans glorified God at Chartres and Poitiers, Artist Saint has cooked up messes of egg-yolk, hollyhock, calendula and portulaca. To get a certain yellow, Mr. Saint boiled a cow's hoof, as a medieval manuscript directed. So noisome was the process that Artist Saint had to yell for his sons to carry the bubbling hellbroth away...
...stunts are dragged across the old trails to befuddle the public and confuse the main issue. "And so round and round-just as the music goes round and round-so round and round goes the Hauptmann affair-one of the most shocking exhibitions of gubernatorial meddling with the orderly process of law and order that America has displayed to the world in many a decade." When the suit was filed, aggressive Commentator Carter hurried to his microphone, challenged Governor Hoffman to bring his action in ""a neutral State, the State of Pennsylvania - the State in which I work and live...
...Government bought some 7,000,000 starving cattle, turned most of them into beef for the unemployed. Last week Secretary Wallace ordered the process begun again, allotted $5,000,000 as a starter, planned to buy up to 1,000,000 head. Meantime, the Interstate Commerce Commission authorized sharp cuts in freight rates on live stock shipped out of famine areas...
...wires which failed, W.H. Swanger and G. F. Wohlgemuth of the U. S. Bureau of Standards learned that something had happened on the bridge which no tester had ever thought of reproducing in the laboratory. On the wires were tiny lumps of zinc put there by the galvanizing process. Where the cables rubbed against iron supports of the bridge, those tiny particles were driven into the steel wires, wedging apart the fine crystals of the annealed steel, causing the wire to snap. Coarse-grained, cold-drawn steel wire was found to resist this minute destructive process...