Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Germany attacked Russia in 1941, nimble Joanovici became a Rumanian again by the simple process of buying back his papers from a Vichy French passport official. Later he declared himself a stateless person. Soon the Nazis were knocking at his door, not to arrest him, but to beg humbly for his help. Germany was short of scrap, and Joanovici could supply...
Despite the bureaucratic obstinacy which so often characterizes the mechanics of Harvard's educational process, occasionally a new and sensible idea gropes its way to realization. One of these reassuring incidents is the decision to replace final examinations in English 163 and Comp Lit 166 with lengthy reading papers...
...This process "combines selectivity and democratic methods," according to a member of the Class Committee...
...resolution, says Father Graham, seems deliberately to avoid the antireligious aspect of Communism. "The closest it comes to mentioning this side of life under Communism is a classic circumlocution. The Red program is described as 'this process of assimilation of ancient religiously imbued cultures into a Godless culture.' ... An outsider can only speculate that the World Order Study Conference seemed to be reverting to the strong pacifism characteristic of American Protestantism before...
...materials," Chandler has taken Standard Packaging on a whirlwind ride of growth and acquisition, boosted sales from $24 million in 1955 to $64 million in 1958, has picked up ten companies in three years. This week he bought the eleventh: National Metallizing Corp. of Trenton, N.J., which owns a process to coat paper with metal. Chandler is convinced that the new process is cheaper than present methods of laminating foil to paper, sees a big market for his product in wrappings of all kinds, even though competitors are working on similar processes...