Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...span of time required for synthesis has significance in the study of cell metabolism--that process by which foodstuffs are made available for use by the body. Cell metabolism, in turn, is related to problems of cancer, uncontrolled cell growth...
Modern New Zealand geologists have another explanation. In some past age a strip of land 120 miles long and up to 30 miles wide sank below the surrounding land and got cracked up in the process. The trench was later filled partially with silt and volcanic debris, but the cracks did not heal. They still lead down toward molten rock perhaps 30,000 ft. below the surface...
Quincy House also will have a football coach, Henry Lamar, on its staff of Senior Associates. "Harvard recognizes athletics as an integral part of the educational process, not as a separate activity," said Master Bullitt...
Obviously such a process lacks the flexibility needed for more complex problems, where no absolutes of yes and no are possible; the simpler machines are suitable for teaching spelling and arithmetic in the primary grades, and are now being tested in these areas...
...This process accomplishes a gradual and comprehensive replacement of the indistinct general terms by the technical ones. "Filament" replaces "fine wire"; "emit" takes the place of "glow" and "give off light", and then the word "emit" is inflected in different ways for greater familiarity with terms...