Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well as raising the question of whether the networks have acted as monopolies and suppressed competition, the legal battle between the networks and the FCC has brought up the whole matter of the scope and method of judicial review in cases of administrative regulations. The former issue has been recently publicized in a suit by the Mutual Broadcasting System against...
Vermont's course will be based on a teaching method developed by Dr. William Berrien of the Rockefeller Foundation. Without overemphasizing vocabulary or ignoring grammar, Dr. Berrien lets his students live the language, urges them to relate it to their special interests: science, anthropology, economics, etc. He lets them read and talk about what interests them most, guides them to the best literature in their particular fields of interest...
...Berrien doubts whether U.S. colleges and universities will ever accept this intensive method of teaching foreign languages, but he thinks they ought to. Says he: "If we are now lacking engineers, agronomists and economists with a knowledge of Spanish or French, it is not altogether the fault of the U.S. people who can't learn languages' but also partly of educators who have failed to relate language to the activities and interests of men in different fields of work. The materials used heretofore in language teaching have been too exclusively limited to fiction, a good portion...
Woodcuts, printed from wooden blocks in which designs have been cut with knives and gouges (a favorite method of 16th-century German Albrecht Dürer and the Japanese printmakers...
...group asked that the truth about the war be presented without disproportionate emphasis on mistakes and military defeats. "It is perfectly legitimate," it declared, "that there should be different opinions on questions of method, but there is only one end, the defeat of the Axis powers...