Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge." In view of this position, those who have heretofore looked upon the Harvard plan as but the rudimentary shoots of an eventual Oxford replica may well consider the University's system not in the light of an evolving thing--although of course its mechanics are still in the process of evolution and probably will remain, so for some time--but as one whose broader outlines, the lecture-tutorial regime, are permanent...
...Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital operating room last week, one Dr. John Miller was performing a delicate operation on a patient's throat. Surgeon, assistants and nurses were wrapped in sterile linens. Suddenly, into the humid room, sidled one Leo Goldstein, process server, wearing a surgically filthy raincoat. "Scat!" cried a nurse...
...been laboriously installed. New presses; the moving of a colossal switchboard required the encroachments of a subway under one corner of the structure; a redesigned paper storage cavern stretching far under Brooklyn Bridge were bit by bit purchased, made room for and set scientifically in place. Four years this process required. Last week it was completed. In all the years not one edition or one mail train was missed by a paper plant working 24 hours a day to publish a morning and evening newspaper to the sum of 700,000 daily copies...
...obvious to everyone that education is a process of accumulation, not alone of knowledge in the narrow sense, but of experiences. It is a natural process which will take place automatically as long as inquisitiveness and acquisitiveness exist. If the education is obtained in schools, it is directed, orderly accumulation-the facilitation of which is the reason for schools. In schools the problem arises how to get the subject matter of such courses as "History I" into the mental accumulation of the student when his natural inquisitiveness lies not in that direction. Yet such courses must be passed before...
...silver is refined by the cyanide process," he continued, "and is packed out about 78 miles by mule-back in the form of bricks. That trail is no little promenade even in the daytime; but we found ourselves on it one evening in the pitch dark and rain with five miles of the hardest stretch before us. It is no fund picking your way along with a roaring torrent about 1000 feet directly below...