Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Palmer carry the refining process a step farther: one month later, New York's famed Belmont Stakes, third of the three $100,000 three-year-old spring classics, will...
...faint sense of pride in the platoon, not so much in the sense of liking the members of it, as of respect for what it has gone through. They have a mild pride in (partly fear of) a good officer, and a hesitant, partly exasperated approval of the democratic process that has placed them, Jews and anti-Semites, intellectuals and illiterates, in the same unearthly, uncomfortable place. They fight shy of any speechmaking about any of these things. Democracy is not a faith they fight for; it is a sort of punishment they take for not having believed...
Lowly-touted Adams won an unexpected victory over Lowell and Leverett in the second race, and turned in the best time of the day in the process. The three boats crossed the finish line separated by only a length apiece, the winner being clocked...
...practicing-just in case the International Typographical Union called a strike. At an estimated cost of $20,000 a week, it had hired 350 typists and other extra help, and set up a special staff under Assistant Managing Editor Turner Catledge to iron the kinks out of the new process. The ironing had gone so well, not only on the Times but on the other dailies, that the worried I.T.U. last week made VariTyping a major issue...
...Publishers' Association looked over a room full of new labor-saving printing gadgets. Among them: a Fairchild photoelectric engraver that made cheap cuts of plastic in a fraction of the time required for the present zinc engraving. If VariTyping could be combined with a quick and cheap engraving process, then the newspaper of the future might be "printed" without printers. The publishers voted to spend $280,000 for research on new printing processes...