Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that intensive investigation during the last few years . . . has exonerated hyaluronidase, experimentally administered, as a promoter of cancer growth. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the injection of enormous amounts of hyaluronidase into cancer-bearing animals, or even into the cancerous tumor itself, has no effect on the cancerous process whatsoever...
...areas of China which they held, Chiang's forces became identified with defeat, despair and disorder. The will to resist waned and, by this curious conspiracy of circumstances, revolutionary Communism came to be associated with-of all things-order and the promise of peace. This was the process, sped by the age-old agonies of Asia's crowded, impoverished lands, that brought a determined, rebellious Hunanese peasant and an alien ideology of the West to the overlordship of China's millions...
...necessarily after the fact; usually he does not see news stories and editorials until they are printed. To help keep track of things, he makes frequent notes in the notebook he always carries. Once, at a private dinner, he heard a friend talk about a new film-color process, jotted down a note. When a story on the process duly appeared in the Times, the friend was shocked, argued that it had been a breach of confidence to print it. Replied Sulzberger: there is no closed season on news and ideas. The day-to-day job of handling the news...
...sorting out courses for next year I find the perennial problem of conflicting examination groups repeating itself. I do not know what malicious principle lurks beneath the process of scheduling...
There are ways out of this mess. President Truman could veto the current bloated appropriation, but this is unlikely, since he has his constituents too. There must be a reorganization of the whole process of damming and dredging before the economy which Congress so cloquently embraces and so purposefully blocks will be possible. The first need is a system of "beneficiary repayments," under which the people who gain from water shifts will have to pay the cost. This is the system used by the Bureau of Reclamation, an executive agency, when it builds irrigation ditches for farmers. As the Hoover...