Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attending members studied and discussed hospital improvement plans, cancer research, industrial surgery, treatment of fractures, eye-ear-nose-&-throat surgery, care of crippled children. Acrimonious was the discussion on hospitals. Charged William James Mayo: "I would call attention to the clandestine-if I may use so opprobious a term-method of increasing hospital income by exorbitant charges for the use of the operating room. . . ." Passionately retorted Director Warren Pearl Morrill of the Maine General Hospital, Portland: "If some surgeons would forego the pomp and circumstances demanded for their regal round of the wards, A remarkable scene was enacted...
...rink by the use of vents opening from the walls under the stands. These openings will fill the rink with cold air during the night and once a good body of ice is formed it will be possible to hold this during any protracted thaw. This method of forming ice has been used successfully throughout Canada and in many rinks in this country...
...announcing problem in the press box is one that is causing more than a little trouble this year. When the box was enlarged, it immediately became apparent that the old method of relaying the announcement from a centrally placed spotter to all ends of the enclosure was not going to work when the box was filled to capacity. Accordingly in time for the Army game, two large loud speakers were installed in the center...
...matter. Already there has been friction between the two organizations of a sort which augurs ill for the success of the project. After all, employment is one thing and business management quite another and it is unreasonable to suppose that the two activities may be happily combined. The obvious method of securing an equitable distribution of jobs between athletes and non-athletes is to have this phase of the situation handled by the Employment Office. The actual direction of the men given positions, however, might well be taken over by some individual or organization familiar with the operation of such...
...same method might be used to correct other lovers of cacaphony. Those who insist on letting their radios loose at full blast in what should be the dead of night could be cheerfully sentenced to an eternity of bad jazz. For the Gold Coast bottle-throwers and week-end revelers, a hell of raucous outcries, accompanied by an undertone of breaking glass could well be prescribed...