Word: processing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Misfortune overtook Jim Curwen in the 100 free-style. Coming into his turn at the halfway mark, he spun without touching the wall and had to return to make contact, losing two body lengths in the process. He turned on the heat for his final fifty but his qualifying time of 55.4 was too slow to place him in the finals. Yale Captain Johnny Good took the final in the fine time of 52.7, eclipsing the meet record of 53 flat set by Charlie Hutter last year, and thus ending his career in Payne Whitney Pool with his best time...
Elections are defended on the grounds than they provide much needed practice in the democratic process. But forms mean nothing provided the correct spirit is not behind them. Democracy in the Union and the Yard is a mockery. The cynical and frivolous attitude toward democratic forms which this situation produces does greater harm than a complete failure to exercise a democratic prerogative. The opportunity to vote will be offered students under far more auspicious circumstances in later years. In the Yard, however, elections are synonymous with hypocrisy, and freshmen conscious of this will abolish the two together...
...process of my research I found a great many conflicting opinions from Mencken's violent denunciation to hero-worshipping biographies like Billy Herndon's. The most important point of controversy always seemed to rest on the real force behind Lincoln's agitation for abolition...
...lone man with an umbrella on his arm picks out a girl with whom he would like to dance, hooks her partner's arm with the umbrella, and whirls away with the girl, leaving the umbrella on the arm of the victim. The dispossessed dancer then repeats the process. French couples enjoyed the Hitleresque fun of giving the man with the umbrella the runaround, leaving him embarrassed and puzzled...
...year was spent in the perfection of the motion-picture technique, and although, as it now stands, the process is complete, all its ramifications and possibilities have not been investigated. By April, it is hoped, according to Professor Walter F. Dearborn, Director of the Psycho-Educational Clinic, and head of the experiment, "that films suitable for the fourth and fifth grades will be on hand...