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Word: methods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...information useful to the public," laboratory work and market study. Its executives represent such soap makers as Procter & Gamble. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Armour & Co., Lever Bros. In no way is the Association a monopoly, for its members compete hotly for the business brought them by this method of collective advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cleanliness Institute | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...complex one. The actual nominating is done by members of a student council committee from the floor in mass meeting of the class. A preliminary vote is taken upon the nominees; the three winners are then submitted to an elimination count which decides the election. The advantage of the method is to reach all sections of the class. The situation in which many a voter finds all the nominees are strangers to him cannot arise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO'S WHO | 12/19/1929 | See Source »

...clear that the system is not applicable to Harvard. The mere mention of a class mass meeting is enough to damn it. Nevertheless there is a need for a method by which the name of the nominee will have some significance in the mind of the voter. A brief mention of the position and activities of the candidate, printed on the ballot, would serve in some measure to acquaint the voter with the aspirant for office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO'S WHO | 12/19/1929 | See Source »

...method of instruction at the Edison Institute of Technology is likely to turn out some excellent men;" said G. F. Doriot, associate professor and assistant dean of the Harvard Business School, when interviewed yesterday. "On the other hand, I do not believe that the general run of men will come up to the standard of the regular type of education, which does, after all, drill in essentials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORD'S PLAN WILL GIVE PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

...problem of securing sufficient light for photographing still remained. Further experiments with Magnesium flares indicated that it was difficult, but not impossible, to use this method of lighting. If the flare was lighted too soon, the turtle retreated to the sea; if too late, half of the episode was lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM FOUNDATION FINDS TURTLES HARD SUBJECTS | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

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