Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control?" But Lord Lothian is not sanguine about the possibility of the U. S. acting with any other power. Says he: If the U. S. decides to act, it will be because she feels her vital interests require it, "and she is far more likely to proceed by the method of unilateral declaration of policy, involving no commitment to anybody else, as she did in the case of the Monroe Doctrine, than by any kind of alliance with or pledge to any other country...
Unorthodox in the extreme is Bartlett's method of gathering material for his programs. Every day promptly at 2:05 he whirls into the Chicago Home Arts Guild, an institution supported by national advertisers, to lunch and show 100-odd women the sponsors' 100-odd products. Tommie shouts "Hello, girls!" at the assembled matrons. Ten minutes later, after the girls are all in spasms at Tommie, who thinks nothing of rolling on the floor to get them giggling, WBBM technicians begin to record Meet the Missus. Twittering like sparrows, yanking nervously at their girdles, some of Tommie...
Carl Snyder is regarded by his friends and admirers as one of the world's wisest students of political and social phenomena, by his critics as an opinionated old windbag. He regards himself as a social scientist who brings scientific method to political prophecy and economic analysis. Onetime Federal Reserve Bank statistician, onetime president of the American Statistical Association, he is now retired to write about his findings (latest book...
...Meanwhile, the company has kept on making nylon more versatile, finding new tricks to do with it. Du Pont has been assigned patents on: 1) a "sulfone" nylon which is especially resistant to acids and alkalies; 2) a nylon resembling wool, made by mechanically crimping the fibres; 3) a method of pre-shrinking nylon fibres...
...India, whither she had gone to form "a centre of scientific researches in what is commonly known as education," Signorina Maria Montessori, 69, pioneer woman educator and founder of the famed Montessori (progressive kindergarten) method, was interned as an enemy alien. Mohandas K. Gandhi asked for her release, guaranteed "her good conduct...