Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight the Federal Trade Commission ordered Scientific Instruments, Inc. of Chicago to "cease and desist from representing . . . that its birth control device, The Rule of Life, or O. K. Calendar or any other device operating upon the same theory, provides a method of complete, or any definitely stated percentage, of birth control...
...required ten months for Oliver to obtain a working knowledge of the Siwai. His method of learning the strange, unwritten tongue was to induce villagers to tell him familiar stories and myths of the tribe, while he wrote them down in phonetic spelling...
...extraneous matter, for he is a literal painter, and an idea such as the one suggested cannot be fully expressed in a literal manner. It requires what Plato would call a closer approach to the essence of a thing, in short, abstraction. So we see that the abstract method is primarily an intellectual way of painting, designed to express certain aspects of life and the world which can be only laboriously touched upon if the older, more accepted manner of painting is employed...
This should not be too difficult, he says, because the modern college teacher is crippled by "devotion to competence in some field of specialized research" and "undue magnification of the scientific method and its latest findings...
...wholly impossible to realize. While the School's work is fundamentally experimental, the lines of development are clearly definable. Dean Williams has stated them in these words: "What we are seeking to do is not to find a new content in public administration but a new and more effective method of work which will draw not only the various branches of the social sciences nearer together but also the university and the public service...