Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actual process of making a pair of boots in a painstaking and tedious one. The pilgrim who travels to 135 Boylston St. gets his foot measured by Papa who insists that the lucky skier wear a properly ftting sock for the occasion. Having got a measurement of the customer's foot, Peter, or one of the boys, selects a "last" (the "last" looks like a solid wooden shoe tree with no hands) nearest the size of the measured foot. This "last" is carefully sanded down or built up with pieces of leather so that it emerges a working model...
...consulted in making a pattern for cutting out the leather uppers. The trigonometry involved would do credit to a Math 1 student. At this point, Mama's work begins; she cuts and sews the uppers to the required size. The selection and cutting of the upper is a difficult process, since all leather will stretch in one direction. The problem is to select a piece of leather with the minimum of stretch, and then cut it so that the stretching will be in the least detrimental direction...
Legal training also helps the politician himself by training him in debate and lobbying, according to Saltonstall, teaching him the lawmaking process, and giving him a knowledge of people and their problems...
...process is repeated a second time, but after the youngster has guessed the new toy's size, he is suddenly not allowed to have it. The tester than asks his subject to estimate again the size of the toy he desires...
...chasing you to tell you." Two days later, he added: "I have no way of knowing whether I'll make the grade." The newsmen gathered in Mrs. Hadley's apartment in St. Louis' West End knew that he had. Said Barkley: "Our courtship has undergone a process of culmination." The wedding would...