Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Paris' "younger school" of dream-painters, Surrealist Paalen is fervently opposed to Old Master Salvador Dali. Reason: Dali is getting too much gravy. Glib, stylish and frightening as last year's millinery, Wolfgang Paalen's cobwebby paintings at the Julien Levy Gallery are constructed in a method all his own. Surrealist Paalen smears his canvas with an even coat of white paint, then holds it over a burning candle, gets his tip on what to do next from the smudges left by the smoke...
Several years ago Dr. Dubos, born in France, Ph.D. of Rutgers, set himself to find out. His method was essentially simple. He got a great many soil samples, mixed them with various germ cultures. If there was any organism in the soil sample that found a germ to its liking, the organism would devour it, thrive in such numbers that the scientist could identify and culture the organism. When Pioneer Dubos told his latest results last week to the American College of Physicians in Cleveland, he got an ovation...
...practical value of the method has been proved by the large number of other libraries who subscribe. Financed partly by sale of the films and partly by the Rockefeller Foundation, Wideuer is now the only library in the country cashing in on the idea...
...extend until June 12, 1943 the power of the Secretary of State to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements. At stake was a principle that the best minds in both major parties have long agreed is above partisan politics-that reciprocal trade agreements are the best known method of smashing world trade barriers...
...QUESTION: // your answer to the above question is 'No,' do you favor that, irrespective of the judgment of the Board of Trustees at the time as to the method of selling, each future issue of bonds or debentures shall be sold only through competitive bidding...