Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden action meant the end of 51 laws, although actually it was only a beginning in the process of dismantling the machinery of war. Selective Service still remained. Nearly 500 emergency control measures-covering everything from butter substitutes for patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., to death sentences for deserters-still stand. Before the U.S. has been restored to a full peacetime basis, the President (or Congress) must terminate the states of "limited emergency" and "unlimited emergency"; and Congress must terminate the "state...
...trivision" negatives (as the Navy calls them) are reversed, the foreground appearing to be the background. But printed on special "trivision paper" they are startlingly lifelike. The process is not yet ready for demonstration. But Inventor Winnek and the Navy hope to adapt it to colored lithography and to movies, so that human beings on paper or screen will be almost warm with life...
...Reading. "By stuffing within school walls three times as many things for pupils 'to do' we do not necessarily enrich the life of the pupil three times. . . . The unfortunate outcome of this circus type of school is that pupils think of study as inconsequential to the educational process...
What is promised from this new science is still nebulous though the inherent possibilities have excited the imaginations of scientists throughout the world. Weather prediction, for which tremendous complex formulae already exist, may be reduced to an exact process instead of the present hit and miss system; economists and anthropologists have reams of statistical data which may with mechanical aid be put to practical use; engineers, particularly aeronautical and metallurgical, may be able to come out of the laborious testing laboratory and try their designs quickly and inexpensively through machine aided mathematics. Automatic computation cuts horizontally across all fields...