Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They decided intervention was out. To get a sufficient force-say 80,000 men-into action would be an extremely slow process. Even if Scandinavia permitted transit, they would have to land far north, either at Trondhjem or Narvik in Norway...
...Germans, the prospect for an offensive might seem more promising. But, by any modern process of calculation, their margin of superiority in numbers is not enough to support that promise. So far as can be gauged, only the introduction of some radically new weapon, or extraordinarily bad generalship on the Allies' side, could give them any chance of real success...
...page, picture tabloid, Newsdaily has no editorial page. Written by a staff of ten young editors, its features are mainly pictorial take-outs, its cuts liberally scattered on every page. Besides trying a new mechanical process, it is experimenting with a new editorial technique, departmentalized news and a front largely devoted to news summaries...
...wondered how it all started. Pierre Laplace, French mathematician (1749-1827), devised the celebrated "nebular hypothesis": that the solar system was originally a diffuse, whirling, gaseous mass. As this nebular mass became smaller and denser, it whirled faster, until centrifugal force threw off a ring of gas. The process was repeated, each gas ring coalescing into a planet and the sun finally settling down to its present calm estate...
...more than a University Hall bicker about the technical requirements for a degree; it is a questioning of the very nature of the peculiar concoction known as a "liberal education." Harvard is not merely investigating itself; it is groping for the function and meaning of the whole educational process...