Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discoveries made a prophet in his own time of Cornell Astrophysicist Thomas Gold, who last spring predicted that pulsars with faster rates would soon be discovered and that some might well be detected in the process of slowing down. The findings also supported the contention that pulsars are actually neutron stars, strange celestial bodies that were mathematically postulated by scientists in the 1930s but have not yet been proved to exist...
...Steel, which in past years often seemed more interested in conserving cash than investing in modernization, has lagged behind some of its competitors in adopting the industry's two major postwar innovations: the basic oxygen process and continuous casting. When Blough took over in 1955, the company had sales of $4.098 billion and earnings of $370 million. Profits reached a record high of $419 million in 1957, but then began dropping off fairly steadily. Last year sales were $4.067 billion and earnings were down to $172.5 million. So far in 1968, the company has increased both sales...
Predictably, the process is not easy. Besides the individual's own natural shiftiness, Rubinoff argues, one of the great intellectual stumbling blocks to such self-knowledge is liberal humanism, a near-religion that obscures the truth about human nature by assuming that evil is to be found not in man but in social and political institutions, and preaching that they, and indeed man himself, are perfectible through the application of discipline and reason. With the aid of this and other rationalizations, modern man tends to repress the natural knowledge of evil and of his own demonic urges. The result...
...process of review for students who are asked to leave the department...
...demand for "due process of review," the spokesman said, is not the result of any specific incident. "Over the last ten years there have been a number of times when graduate students have been asked to leave the department and no reason has been given," he said. "Now there is a lot of fear, among first-year students especially, that if they do anything wrong they'll be kicked...