Word: procession
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...town's opinion will reveal the exact opinion of the whole country; he goes anonymously, realizing that the town must not become self-conscious about its representative nature; his secret leaks out; the town becomes a tremendous sensation throughout the nation; it has a boom; in the process, it loses its head and its representative quality; this last is discovered; the town has a bust; Stewart pulls out a gimmick providing for a return to normalcy; Stewart marries Jane Wyman, a newspaperwoman who has been involved throughout. A great many other things happen during this march of events, such...
...shop of the California Institute of Technology to be ground and polished. The 20-ton blank was placed face up on a turntable. As it revolved slowly, a 48-inch disc set with blocks of abrasive was stroked mechanically back & forth from its edge across its center. The whole process was maddeningly tedious...
...transparent glass, still to be covered with a reflecting film of aluminum. Before this could be done, the glass had to be cleaned perfectly. The trick was to cover the surface with a "monomolecular layer" (one molecule thick) of a fatty acid to keep dust off the glass. This process sounds formidably scientific, but in practice the glass was covered with a well-advertised brand of hair oil (essentially an emulsion of lanolin), and the excess wiped off carefully with special wool flannel...
...process was comparatively painless for the team, which begins to shape up now as a threat in the Eastern League struggle. Ted Norris added another feather to his well-plumed cap by cracking the Annapolis pool record for the 440, as he led teammate Larry Miner home in 4:54.5, nine-tenths of a second under the old record...
...continuing a high rent on converted singles even though both prewar advantages have been swept away. It further believes that by adding $40 to the prewar rent for each new man and dividing by the total number of men, it has a sure-cure for injustice in the doubling process. Examination indicates both assumptions to be wrong...