Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read your Nov. 9 article on the steel strike with great interest. I have a suggestion to end long, costly strikes for all time. Simply lock the union and management in a room and let them out only when they have come up with an agreement. This method is used to elect a Pope, and has great success...
...committee strongly favored the historical method of teaching geography, an approach which is the strongest in the English universities but seems to have found little favor in the United States. Maas explained that the historical approach would give the Harvard department a "unique" position in this country; could draw on the strength of other departments here (History, Economics); and would reinforce the integrity of geographical research, which some feel is being jeopardized by extreme and perhaps invalid outgrowths...
...organization hopes to store sofas, chairs, and tables for the summer, and then sell them to incoming students for the original owners. Agency managers hope the exchange will replace the present scattered, bulletin-board method of selling...
...general technique of Russian research differs radically from that in the United States. For the Soviets, Doty said, comprehensive, systematic exploration largely supplants original thought. This determined, unromantic method has paid off in the study of plastics and molecular physics but the Russians lag behind the United States in chemistry and certain of the more abstract sciences...
...Hulot's method of attack is a subtle one: he doesn't really pursue his prey; it pursues him. In Mon Oncle, Modern Times closes in on the good-natured Hulot (played by M. Tati, who also wrote and directed the film) in the form of a paunchy brother-in-law. Brother-in-law is an officer of an ultra-modern company which manufactures plastic hoses and similar useful items, and he has constructed for himself, wife and son a house with every conceivable inconvenience...