Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day came the brightening. The voters in Iowa's Fourth District elected a Republican to fill the unexpired term of a Democratic Congressman who had died in office (see below), and the outcome seemed to show that simply denouncing Benson is not quite so surefire a method of winning farm belt elections as Democrats had hoped-and Republicans had feared...
...techniques employed at Susse are "lost wax" and "sand casting." The lost-wax method of classical and Renaissance sculptors was revived by Susse especially to cope with the intricate broken surfaces of such moderns as Richier, Reg Butler and Giacometti. A plastic mold of the model is constructed and provided with a system of vents. A wax skin the thickness of the desired bronze is then spread over the inside of the mold, and the core is filled up with plaster. Then the wax is melted away through the vents, and molten bronze poured in. When the bronze cools...
...often after major surgery, especially among elderly patients in accident cases, there is truth in the sour jest that the operation was a success but the patient died. Last week, in the London medical journal Lancet, two physicians described a method of treatment that slashed the death rate among such patients at Birmingham Accident Hospital in England's Midlands...
...solely or substantially attributable to traveling clots. Like all anticoagulants, phenindione must be given under the strictest medical supervision, usually in a hospital, with frequent laboratory tests to guard against the danger of uncontrollable bleeding, and some accidents or illnesses would preclude treatment. But with these precautions, the British method looks promising...
...pulpit. "Responsible choice as to the number and spacing of children," he said in his sermon, "is simply one of the many areas of life in which people are called upon to make conscientious decisions under God." If a couple "ought to be having a child," any method of birth control-including abstinence from intercourse-is sinful. But if they should not be having a child-for economic, psychological or physical reasons-they are under obligation to use the most effective methods to prevent it. "We are not permitted to use a chancy method, like the rhythm method, which some...