Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike ancient Sir George Paish, whose doddering singlehanded attempt to jostle the U. S. into World War II made the British Embassy "advise" him to go home at once (TiME, Sept. 9), Journalist Brailsford has no illusions that snaring the U. S. is easy. His method is to state, with great clarity, the peril to the U. S. if England falls. He points out that in that case no commitment, however solemn, short of America's participation in the war as an ally, can bind the British Fleet to sail to Canada or the U. S. Only...
...response to a growing demand, the staff of Widener Library is now preparing a new ultra-modern book chute where students may return books during the hours in which the Library is closed. Up until this fall there has been no method by which students could return books during the evening...
Leverett House: Mr. Murdock, although he had no definite opinion, expressed dissatisfaction with the idea, saying that he would rather see some other method of employing undergraduates...
Aside from stressing the importance of facility in the use of English, Dean James M. Landis of the Law School suggests history, philosophy, and literature as essential to a knowledge of human history; mathematics as excellent discipline in handling abstract ideas; familiarity with the scientific method; and, finally, some research into original sources, so that the student "will already have lost complete reverence for the printed page" by the time he enters the Law School...
Because last year's steam pipe system caused a great deal of air radiation, it had to be discarded in favor of some wiring system. While the actual method that will be employed during the next year is still undecided, it seems likely that the radio frequency waves from the central set will be distributed over shielded cable to the various buildings of the college. From there it will be released to the students' radio sets by way of the steel framework of those buildings...