Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exists, then, in every college, and every college must retrench and scrimp and economize as best it can. The policy at Harvard, as outlined by University officials, is perhaps distinctive because of its far-sighted determination "not to sacrifice long-term gains to solve a temporary crisis." The easiest method of slashing the budget, and one which may be adopted widely, is to reduce salaries. After all, it does seem a plausible argument that teachers should participate in the sacrifices which are everywhere being made for defense. But such a way out would reverse a trend which for two generations...
...primarily concerned with teaching Jews what it believes to be the correct attitudes they should adopt towards democracy and their future. Outside of its councils at which many prominent men speak, it organizes youth movements and tries to educate the Jewish community from within. It educates by a method of "learning through doing"; it has summer camps at which young Jews can learn trades. At these camps scholars and students have washed dishes, tinkered with motors, and most important, successfully run farm-communities on a strictly cooperative basis...
...doubting that it would come just then. But it was taken for granted in Berlin that to win the war, the invasion must be attempted - and must succeed - by June. As to technique, one well-pleased German remarked last week: "We'll take England by employing the same method we used in taking Eben Emael"-the key Belgian fort, which was subdued by treachery, flame, bombs, parachutists, gliders, above all, by surprise...
...accidentally swallowed strong caustic soda solution. The soda burned his esophagus, and the scar tissue which formed there permanently closed it, so that no food could pass to his stomach. Surgeons had made a neat little hole in his stomach wall, inserted a rubber tube. Mr. V.'s method of eating was necessarily messy: he would first chew his food to enjoy the flavor, then spit it into a syringe, insert the syringe into his tube, and thus fill his stomach. Through the tube Dr. Carlson could observe, to his heart's content, Mr. V.'s sometimes...
...method of helping to meet University expenses, a group of athletically talented members of the Law and Business Schools have formed a professional basketball team, which bids soon to establish a name for itself in New England athletic circles...