Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most language classes. For example, Stein has completely revamped German B this year. Using a text published only a few months ago, based upon sucessful linguistic studies, members of the course commit a basic reading to memory, learning grammar to a large extent by osmosis. Learning becomes a "dynamic process." Sections in German B are conducted almost entirely in German, although the course is specifically intended to help students gain a greater reading than speaking knowledge; from the very moment they enter the room, the students are surrounded by an atmosphere of German...
...process of such deep thinking, Vag had found it helpful to stretch out on his couch. "I really can apply myself better this way," he reminded the victrola. So there he stayed, reading carefully for ten minutes...
Rainbow's Reach. Color in daily journalism is not new. The Milwaukee Journal first used run-of-press color in 1891. But such color remained a prohibitively expensive rarity until after World War II, when technical improvements in the process brought costs down to a level that newspapers-and newspaper advertisers-could afford...
...jobs (TIME, Nov. 3, 1958). This was true even when the tranquil men ate as much animal fat, smoked as much, and got as little exercise as the climbers. Dr. Friedman suspected that taut emotions worked on the arteries through hormones. But which? And was it a 24-hour process, or did it happen mainly during the gogetters' working hours...
...himself under the name of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. He performed dazzling feats of finance one after another. His method was to buy control of banks and other financial institutions, use them to seize a dominating role in corporations, then reorganize, merge and centralize the corporations in a process that became known as "Morganization...