Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closing hours, Louisiana's 57-year-old Allen Ellender hung up a filibuster record by mumbling for twelve hours 20 minutes, the longest time any Senator had ever talked without relief. "I underwent a dehydration process for two days before I spoke," the Senator explained with the pride of a gabby flagpole-sitter. He refueled himself during his performance with nothing more than two glasses of water, one glass of orange juice, seven chocolate bars and a few tablets for his throat...
Writing primarily for Britons, the Economist does not have to explain why this process no longer works in their country. Had it needed to, the Economist could have turned to some figures released last week by the Oxford University Institute of Statistics. These show, that in the years 1938-47, the real income after taxes of the British middle class* dropped 9%, while that of the working class rose 7%. To hold its part of the middle-class vote, the Labor government checked this trend in 1948, but the Oxford report expects it to be resumed: "The movement toward equality...
...unfairness shows up in the case of the student who gets three B-plusses and a C-plus for his term's work. When a percentage scale is set up parallel to the letter grade scale and letters are translated into their numerical equivalents (a process which many section men use in arriving at their letter grades) these grades average out to be about an 85. Yet, this man is placed in Rank Group IV. Another student gets four B-minuses, which is about an 81, and he ends up in Group III, which gives him Dean's List privileges...
...Society is an organization devoted to telepathy, which is the process of sending thought messages from one person to another, and with clairvoyance, which is one person's mental awareness of certain physical occurrances around...
...Candidates must file a petition with at least 75 signatures to get their names on the ballot. There will be no screening process this year...