Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...active and numerous body of Graduates here in Boston, who form the Business School Alumni Association, but recently the number of alumni in New York has become so large that a charter has been granted for the formation of a branch club there. Cleveland and Chicago are in the process of organizing their alumni with a view to forming clubs...
Last year, about this time, learned astronomers were hitching vest-pocket Kodaks to rockets, hoping thereby to obtain better pictures of the planet Mars. This season, the process is being reversed. Professor Todd of Amirerst has conceived the notion of going down thirteen hundred feet in a mine, from which point of vantage he expects to get a peep at our sister planet, as it were, unawares. By rotating a dish of mercury, he plans to convert the mine shaft into a huge-reflecting telescope. This done, no "final close-up" on the silver screen ever betrayed an unsuspecting complexion...
...ground in the old-fashioned water mills has missed the greatest of body-building foods, the food upon which throve the husky pioneer of colonial days. By the ancient method was retained all the valuable ingredients that made the flour nourishing, and that are carefully removed by the modern process...
...process of selection of Rhodes Scholars is somewhat complicated. For the year 1922-23, there will be one scholarship filled from every state in the Union except the following sixteen: Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming...
...Then the faculties can begin to work in an orderly fashion. This relaxation can be induced, of course, without music, simply by sitting still and letting the mind drift. But music is a powerful agent of relaxation, because it so operates on us without our being conscious of the process...