Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the whole process was one of mute foreboding, like a visit to a dentist or a piano teacher, the average citizen held still for the frisk and sometimes even managed a wan smile. By dint of withholding and pay-as-you-go plans, the government usually had his tax money by March anyhow. And this year, because of tax law changes in 1948, he could experience a temporary and spurious elation-of approximately 50 million taxpayers (5,000,000 fewer than last year's record total), 80% would get rebates...
...setting up an educational reconstruction program for Germany, the Military Government has been laying emphasis on an "advise, observe, and assist" formula. But the process of transition from Nazism to democracy is painfully slow, Grace pointed out, and the job is necessarily a long-term...
...Engineering is one of the areas where one cannot always distinguish between the 'techniques' of the scientist interested only in new conceptual schemes and those of the experimenter interested only in an improved industrial machine or process," the President continued. "In short we recognize that yesterday's pure science is today's applied science and tomorrow's billion dollar industry...
...twenty-four lucky winners will spend their holiday plying up and down the Charles often to the extent of 20-odd miles a day. By this process a fairly definite varsity boating will have emerged by the time the rest of us return to Cambridge...
...Education should be a process of developing the individual's capacities rather than bringing him up to the standards of a particular school," he said. "Few, if any, artists attain success by studying basic principles...