Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...INTERNATIONAL). They were shoring up a Europe that had sagged in places, but fundamentally was built of sound material. In China last week the U.S. pulled out the final sagging props that had held up its policy, and a lot of decayed timbers were exposed in the process. The old structure, never sound, was disintegrating, all right, and it made a portentous heap of rubble when it fell. The tragedy was that the U.S. had nothing to put in its place...
...each hog's pituitary is about the size of a pea. It takes 1,360 of them to make a pound, from which about 1½ grams (a third of a teaspoonful) of ACTH can be extracted in a solution and separated as a fluffy, white powder. The process is remarkably simple. But even with the cooperation of non-Armour stockyards, the Armour Laboratories can get so far only about 125,000 hog pituitaries a week-enough to make five ounces of ACTH. All the hogs slaughtered in the U.S. would not yield much more than a pound...
...pistil of an alfalfa flower is a strong spring held in tension by two "keel petals." When the bee alights on the petals, the pistil snaps up and out. This process ensures cross-fertilization by showering the bee with pollen and spanking other pollen loose from the bee's body...
Normally, the atoms point every which way; but when the crystals are placed in a strong magnetic field, they line up in one direction. The lining-up process warms the crystals slightly. Then the magnetic field is removed. The atom-magnets point at random again, and the crystals get colder than they were at the start. This method works fine down to about two-thousandths of one degree above absolute zero...
...critics liked it; one thought Mad Tristan "beautifully presented." But the Times spoke for the majority: "Regurgitation is a hygienic, not an artistic, process. Salvador Dali, turning aside from surrealistic painting to drama, has swallowed Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and spewed it up with much of the murky contents of his unconscious adhering to the gobbets...