Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...notable lack of enthusiasm in the colleges. The technical changes in warfare and the realization of the danger of the crisis make this move away from the cavalier spirit that pervaded the campuses of 1917 both desirable and understandable. Training an army now is a highly technical process. The German Panzer division has replaced the Rough Riders of T.R. as the basic conception of an army. Panzer divisions can only be trained by the War Department. The inadequacy of college lectures in assisting draftees has been borne out by the lack of encouragement, in marked contrast with the last...
Commercially, the silk-screen process has long been used in decorating textiles, wallpaper, bottle labels, 5-&10?-store drinking glasses. Anthony Velonis, who was trained at New York University, began working with silk screen on a WPA art project. He uses a stencil cut out of a plastic, or built up with glue, on fine bolting silk, through which paint is squeegeed and imprinted on paper. For each color a separate stencil is used. An average print takes from four to ten stencils...
...tinkering genius of young America loose on tank and plane repair and maintenance." The Nazis did it, he says, why can't we? Let no one worry if this looks as much like the end of democracy as the beginning. Says Democrat Grafton: "Secret contempt for the democratic process is revealed when use is made of the expression that we must be careful not to lose our democratic rights while fighting to protect them." His tough, all-out club-waving version of democracy would make even some New Dealers cringe. Others will recall that Huey Long...
...cent. Her reception by the U. S. was far from chilly, and led to the formation of a joint defense board. This board has alarmed many Americans, because it appears to ally us with a warring country. But our nine billions for defense, our super-navy now in process of building, our conscription for one-year training, and our goal of 50,000 planes a year make Canada look rabidly isolationist by comparison. Actually, Canada has changed from a British outpost to a closely-tied satellite of America, and right now it is a weak flank. This presents...
Reed stated that all work has been finished except the actual printing now in process. "Ever since 1636," Reed added, "the University has felt the increasing need of a telephone directory, especially since the invention of the telephone. Realizing this need in 1936, the CRIMSON celebrated the tercentenary by publishing the first issue...