Word: processing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheap process for making all kinds and grades of beef more tender was announced last week by Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. The process, sponsored and financed by Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., involves "hanging" the meat so that its enzymes may weaken and break-down the fibres and connective tissues that make meat tough. Ordinarily such hanging (to obtain a few very choice steaks) requires four to eight weeks under expensive cold-storage conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity...
Working directly under the executives of the department, the winners of the award will be given an opportunity to learn the process of administration without going through the subordinate positions of the Civil Service. The award is made following interviews with the leading men in the field of the Social Sciences on the basis of scholarship and personality...
There has been a growing conviction among educators of late--a common conviction which has almost assumed the proportions of a trend--that this process has exceeded its proper limits. Even Mr. Hutchins and Mr. Conant, who are more comfortable glaring at each other across a ring, stand united on this point. Specialization, so they say, has gone too far when each separate field loses its meaning. Scholars have lost the true perspective; they no longer perceive the vital relations between the individual branches of learning. Education has become a meaningless chaos of information...
Harvard is probably completely unaware of this process of her evolution. Be that as it may, Harvard is most certainly not a peppy and spiritous land like the hills of Hanover; it is rather a lotus-land, the private domain of Indifference. Cantabridgians would shy in dismay from any public demonstration of simple school spirit. But secretly most of them admit that all is not well here, that there might be a more ideal attitude. And certainly they would not wish to see Dartmouth hide its spontaneous war-whoops under a hypocritical cloak of assumed indifference...
...report said that the investigating committee was "in the somewhat unique position of being in substantial agreement" with both sides, but declared that the "sense of unity" and "training in the democratic process" which it gives swung the balance in favor of the election's retention...