Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
Naval Hero David Porter thought the process gave "a sensation both harmless and agreeable, producing a pleasant glow or heat somewhat similar to that which is felt on entering a warm bath." Less battle-hardened sitters found it as painful as primitive dentistry. "I was taken in by Browere," wrote Jefferson to Madison. "He suffered the plaster to get so dry that separation became difficult & even dangerous. He was obliged to use freely the mallet & chisel to break it into pieces and get off a piece at a time. These thumps of the mallet would have been sensible almost...
...Having smartened up its board by removing seven out of 17 directors, Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc., makers of Arrow Shirts and owners of the fast-spreading Sanforizing process, netted $3,058,200 in 1939, 175.3% more than...
...piece of meat swinging from a hook and waiting to be further dissected; the foods which are formed from the carcass are lying on a table before being completely prepared for consumption by man; and the man, who is supposed to be the end and aim of the whole process, is shown handling the meat and is made by Grosz to resemble the slaughtered animal from which he receives his food and means of existence. It can be noticed, I think, that Grosz pursues his line of imagery with the tenacity of a metaphysical poet...