Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fissioning atoms. Theory indicated that carbon or heavy water would serve as this "moderator." The U.S. used carbon (graphite), but the Germans decided it would not do. This was a bad mistake; it led them to use heavy water, which could be produced only by a slow and costly process...
...delves. He ruminates. "To scamper through a book is like bolting your food: you miss the flavor and risk dyspepsia." The creative reader is not necessarily widely read: "The well-read man is often one who has accumulated knowledge at the expense of imagination." Real reading is a process of remembering. "Books rarely if ever put anything into the mind of the reader which is not already there. The primary effect of reading is awakening, not informing. . . Books startle the mind into closer and more vivid contact with its own culture, or send it adventuring into strange places. . . . Unless...
Prison life is real life, too-stripped of all pretensions and pleasures. An uncivilizing process, prison life almost inevitably reduces man to the status of a beast living for mere survival. Prison demands the best in man, often brings out the worst...
...basis of this one-man boom is a paraffin-like substance which its chief producers, DuPont and Bakelite, call, respectively, polythene and polyethylene. Tupper's all-important contribution is a process which overcomes the material's tendency to split, makes it tough enough to withstand almost anything except knife cuts' and near-boiling water...
Union. The persistent shortage of steel prompted 25 small steel-using manufacturers to chip in about $4,000,000 for a steel mill of their own in Phoenixville, Pa. This Phoenix-Apollo Steel Co. had also bought an Apollo (Pa.) sheet mill to process the ingots from Phoenixville. The manufacturers, whose plants are scattered from New England to the Midwest, expect that production will be more than enough to keep all of them operating at capacity...