Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Process. In Philadelphia, traffic court Magistrate Jacob Dogole called it a day after 1) Mrs. Elizabeth C. Morgan, charged with lending a motorcycle to an unlicensed driver, proved she didn't own one, 2) Helen Porreca, accused of illegal parking at a certain address, proved there was no such street, 3) Edward Gishen, also up for illegal parking, proved that he was out of town with his car at the time, 4) Timothy Credan and William J. Leahan Jr., charged with passing stop lights, proved there were no such lights...
...merely for the purpose of enjoying this tiny state. There have been only two great peoples: the Greeks and the Jews. Perhaps the Greeks were even greater than the Jews, but now I can see no sign of that old greatness in the modern Greeks. Maybe, when the present process is finished we too will degenerate, but I see no sign of degeneration at present...
...half-miler confessed unblushingly that he invariably goes under the stands half an hour before his race and gets deathly sick. The others nodded understandingly. All of them got sick too, some before a race and some afterwards. It was the terrible "keying up" process that track champions must go through. Since it helps them win, most of them consider it a blessing, not a handicap...
Fifth Dimension. The more people came, the wilder John Brown talked. He declaimed like a prophet, his dark eyes glowing. "For five years," he told a newsman, "I've been living in the fifth dimension. The master cell has 38 crystals. This develops in an evolutionary process, and the crystals increase. After a while, we'll all be made up of crystals, and we'll all be living in the fifth dimension. We'll all be living in space, and there will be no such thing as time. It'll be a beautiful world...
...tiny and disgusting to him; having beheld the stars above the sea he has seemed to conclude, for example, that the love of man and woman is nastiness. Critics who inquire how the conclusion follows from the evidence have been referred by the poet to "instinct," i.e., no rational process is involved...