Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Breaking up coal in veins by use of explosives is still standard practice in U. S. mining, and despite precautions is still hazardous. Coal Age described a new method of mining by hydraulic pressure: a hole is bored in a coal seam, a rubber tube is inserted in the bore, and the tube is then powerfully expanded by forcing oil into it, fracturing the coal. Experimental installations broke about 2.500 tons of coal each before failing...
...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...
...growing FM network to replace the present makeshift method of relaying existing programs...
...right to his opinion, of course, as an American citizen. But he has no more right to impress his opinions on the student body, or any part of it, and indeed, not as much, as the students have to voice their views by the most direct, orderly and effective method at their command...