Word: processing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...past catches up with him. Last week in a Manhattan courtroom James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired heavyweight champion of the world, defended himself against a suit brought by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, sports promoter, for approximately $500.000 back pay. Day by day the testimony showed the intricate process by which champions are made...
Treatment of air is not a new process but it has developed widely only in recent years, and Carrier Engineering Corp. has led the movement. Air-conditioning involves washing air, freeing it of dust, adjusting the humidity (lowering it in summer, raising it in winter). Provision is also made for warming or refrigerating the air. The biggest users of conditioned air have been places where many people gather and those industrial plants in which the atmosphere must be just...
Events are born as journalism, die as history. Journalist Mark Sullivan's Our Times is an attempt to delay the process, or at least to arrange the corpse's limbs decently before rigor mortis sets in. Journalist Sullivan knew the dear departed well, arranges the lights and shadows with a friendly and discriminating hand. This third volume of his big work (there will be two more) covers the years...
...criticizes the system of tariff adjustment and refers to it as proceeding in a "haphazard and irresponsible fashion." "To give the farmers higher duties on swine, corn, and meat is a continuation of the old process of trying to throw dust in their eyes." "One is often led to suspect that the pervading process of log-rolling and swapping has ended in changes which some particular domestic interest and its Congressional representative had at heart...
...theory that seems to be borne out by the facts that a college education is a factor in the success of many prominent men. The common fallacy however, is for the college to assume entire responsibility for the process. All kinds and conditions of humanity are found within a college and all students are not influenced to the same degree by their sojourn there. More credit is due to an institution which turns out men of consistently high caliber than to one whose reputation depends on the performances of one or two of its more 0exceptional alumni...