Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...QUESTION: Do you favor that the Board of Trustees shall, in its discretion, at the time of each future issue of bonds or debentures by the Company, determine the method of selling that issue, according to its judgment of the market conditions and other circumstances prevailing at the time of sale...
...mold which adequately expresses their value, they do not require any further commentary. The text thus becomes purely phonetic material for the composer. He can dissect it at will and concentrate all his attention on its primary constituent element--that is to say, on the syllable. Was not this method of treating the text that of the old masters of the austere style? This, too, has for centuries been the Church's attitude towards music, and has prevented it from falling into sentimentalism, and consequently into individualism...
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...