Word: process
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Commenting on the election count, the one time CRIMSON president, who now teaches a course on "The Economics of Socialism," said: "The nature of the election process is such that you can't tell who got the most votes. In judging a candidate's chances, the only thing you can do is to find out what interests are supporting...
...Each one of us must decide to what extent we as a nation should heed the warnings, and though the emergency be great, we must come to our decision by the cumbersome process of free debate...
Apparently, converting the carbohydrate vegetable matter into hydrocarbons is the most ticklish part of Dr. Berl's process, and he did not talk about it too freely. He heats the carbohydrate under pressure with limestone and "similar substances." Probably one or more catalysts (chemical activators) are involved. The time required is only one hour-considerably less than the millions of years that nature needed. The New York Herald Tribune gulped with excitement: "What the Wrights did to distance, he [Professor Berl] has done to geologic time. One's imagination gags at the possibilities...
...strategic and critical materials are in TVA mountains. To make sure that no TVA assets are overlooked, David Lilienthal keeps a staff of researchers hard at work. Last week he announced that one of them, frail M. I. T. man John Henry Walthall, had developed a new process for extracting alumina (raw material of aluminum) from common clay, which abounds in TVAland. Other TVA discoveries include methods for making a cork insulation substitute out of vermiculite (a mica-like rock), for deriving magnesium from olivine, plastics from cottonseed hulls...
Because most of the Monday registrations in former years have come between 10 and 12 o'clock in the morning, upperclassmen are advised to register early to avoid crowds and to speed up the process of getting through Memorial Hall...