Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Erosion Process. In Long Beach, Calif., two policemen checking a stolen-car report found the automobile parked in front of the owner's home, listened calmly while she explained, "I guess the rain washed it clean-I didn't recognize...
...request illustrates the versatility expected of our research librarians. There are 18 of them (14 women, four men) in TIME Inc.'s Morgue (i.e., library of essential information). All are college graduates and graduate librarians. Their operation has been an important part of TIME'S editorial process since about 1937. By then our morgue had become so large and complex that the editorial researchers needed help in selecting from it the background material, facts and information they used for swift and accurate checking...
...days in order that additional candidates might be proposed. A notice to this effect was posted on the door of the dining hall. Three additional names were submitted and automatically nominated by the committee. The procedure employed is felt to be more democratic than the normal nominating process from the floor in open meeting, which precludes the possibility of further nomination after the close of that meeting. It is hoped that this method of nomination will be permanently adopted by the Council. A glance at the ballot will indicate clearly that there was no attempt to put forth...
...first men to recognize leukemia and Hodgkin's disease as tumors rather than infections. He published the first successful diagnosis on a living patient of the disease now called coronary thrombosis, and made microscopic post-mortem sections of coronary arteries a full 25 years before the process was generally understood...
...same time he was working on the back-breaking job of revising the voluminous 19th Century Köchel catalogue which attempted to date Mozart's 600-odd works. He examined hundreds of Mozart scores and letters, discovered some 20 new Mozart compositions in the process, proved an additional dozen spurious. For this and his book, Mozart: His Character, His Work, he is now rated, with French Musicologist Georges de Saint-Foix, as one of the two foremost Mozart authorities in the world...