Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Savannah's late, great Chemist Charles Holmes Herty spent the last eight years of his life trying to make commercial newsprint out of Southern pines. In his laboratory he found a process that worked, but he died in 1938, before the South's lumbermen could build him a mill. What kept Dr. Herty at his labors (and excited many a Southern businessman) was the prospect of another rich, new industry to help along the South's industrial revival...
Meanwhile the breeding and breathing and aging and division which make up all family chronicles was in steady process-a half-dozen well-told romances. Huw himself was bright enough for the best schooling in England, but after a few years of it he quit it for mining and mining for carpentry. As times got harder in the Valley, Huw's brothers and sisters scattered to the dominions, to the U. S., to Germany. Only the broken remnants of the family stayed on. It came to its worst when Huw was in his 20s, in an addled, furious, revolutionary...
...never again will Harvard accept them as complacently as it used to. The Faculty has lately shown, through its consideration of the Student Council Report and the recommendation for wide area fields of concentration, that it is questioning the fundamentals of Harvard's educational process. Whatever kind of new structure is built, it must be made proof against the parasites of Harvard Square, and so must provide within the University for all legitimate tutoring needs. Attempts to do this have so far hardly had time to prove their effectiveness. But they show the way that the University must...
...number of courses. We often overlook the fact that certain students are able to obtain all they need from particular courses in a very short time and that they progress at different raies of speed in their college work. We have not yet explored the possibilities of the examining process as a means of individualizing the work of our more able students...
...years after he left the U. S. Navy in 1919, Chemist Peacock worked unsuccessfully on a process to prevent tarnishing of silverware. He became the only mirror consultant in the U. S. ten years ago, when Hires Turner called him in to see what was wrong with its silvering solution. Amazed was William Peacock at pitcher-pouring. So he went to work on a new process, managed to support his Peacock Laboratories meanwhile by supplying advice, standardized silvering solution, special rubber gloves and other mirror-making accessories to the trade. Near last year's end he found the answer...