Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exam, drawn up by Allan Nevins, professor of History at Columbia and given to 7000 freshmen in 36 colleges all over the country. Obviously, with questions that concentrated on names, dates, and places, the Times was attempting to prove that teachers in the high schools are using the wrong method of teaching American history. The Crimson, in a full-page feature, insisted that the Times test proves nothing, unequivocally terming it a "farce...
Echoes of the latest platoon elections (excluding those who dispensed with this particular method of selecting leaders...
...United States Rubber Co. calls its new extrusion method "the most important improvement in rubber processing in many years." Developed for tank treads, the process squirts rubber through tiny holes into molds under high pressure which raises the temperature almost to the vulcanization point, gives a more uniform cure. Postwar promises include rubber heels of higher quality from less rubber...
...White. Wound treatment was kept simple: gunshot wounds had their edges cut away, were not sewed up; wounds involving bone were usually put in plaster casts (the Orr-Trueta method which got its first full tryout in the Spanish War; TIME, July 8, 1940), and left alone, perhaps for weeks. "Some surgeons made a habit of using sphagnum moss* for surgical dressings...
Hart emphasized that changes had been made in the method of voting over previous years, in order not to deprive unsuccessful candidates for Secretary from possible election to the permanent committee. Under the new system, all nominees for Secretary are automatically up for selection to the committee...