Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such far-from-comic searches may soon be ended by a new method of blood transfusion that makes possible the use of one type of blood for all cases. The "revolutionary" new process was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association last fortnight by Drs. Ernest Witebsky and Niels Christian Klendshoj of the University of Buffalo...
...only method of achieving true peace is permanently to take away from the Germans the possibility of applying their intolerable plan of enslavement." First steps: build a "huge fleet" of bombers, train a guerrilla army like Britain's Home Guard (which André Chéradame credits with saving Britain from invasion); jail all Fifth Columnists...
...coordinated method of catching Nazi prisoners escaped from Canadian concentration camps...
Preventing idiots and feeble-minded from breeding (although not necessarily by the German method of destroying them) is a principle which most U.S. psychiatrists accept. But few doctors would swallow the Nazi definition of "unfit" or "psychopath." In a 1938 issue of the official Militärarzt (Army Doctor), German physicians were warned against "the most dangerous . . . element, the left psychopathic wing . . . those who . . . promote incitement and rebellion . . . those who, not lacking in intelligence . . . gather about themselves the discontented"-a description which in Germany applies rather better to democrats than to radicals...
...other documentaries, except a few which use professional actors to play a specific incident (e.g., a re-enacted journey to Dunkirk and back in a small motor-boat), faithfully follow the method of Spring Offensive. One, Squadron 992, takes a balloon-barrage crew through its organization and training to its ultimate destination in Scotland to protect the Firth of Forth Bridge. Another, Village School, is a heart-warming account of a day in the life of a country schoolteacher plagued with an overload of local and evacuee pupils...