Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...limestone Egyptian head, purporting to date from 2750 B.C. was found to be a forgery when chemical analysis proved the paint was not of the period. Fogg Museum experts, in another case, found that a purported drawing by Fllippino Lippi, was in reality a clever reproduction by a photographic process...
Illinois's New Dealing Kent Keller proposed to retitle Mr. Walter's measure: "The lawyers' emergency relief bill to end unemployment in the legal profession and for no other purpose." The independent Brookings Institution in Washington found that the bill ". . . would seriously retard and hamper the processes of government . . . leave the administration of a statute open to obstructive and dilatory tactics . . . [be] contrary to our basic concepts of the judicial process . . . demoralizing Government departments, destroying their efficiency, delaying the transaction of Government business to an excessive and intolerable degree, and greatly enhancing the cost of government...
...historian of society as well as government, Adams does not minimize Britain's misery at home in the Tory reaction which for 40 years after the French revolution delayed reform. But when reform came it was not through violent revolution, as elsewhere in Europe, but through the Parliamentary process and the talents of English statesmen. Adams' story includes many instances of the way in which those talents opened up modern civilization; e.g., Sir Robert Peel's inauguration of the police force, Sir Rowland Hill's invention of postage stamps...
...crowding details mounts to a kind of hymn. Such fury may be a purging force. Certainly no piece of writing has yet made more vivid the last few ominous years for Britain: "Their world was passing away-London, that great city. None could revive it, none stay the process of disintegration. Feet treading, found no foothold; arms reaching, no guiding wall or comforting pillar found; mind thinking, nothing grasped. All was dissolving. Lost! lost! in the darkness of change...
Known as a "penumbral" eclipse, the process will begin at 9:28 o'clock and will end at 1:25 o'clock Monday morning, reaching its maximum between 11 and 12 o'clock midnight. At its height, the eclipse will be marked by a darker shadow on one side than the other...