Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...must import) for reexport through Amtorg, chief U. S. purchasing agent of the Soviet Government. War and Navy Department officials, having failed to build stockpiles of these essentials, cracked down with a "moral embargo." Said they, nipping one 500-ton sale of pig tin in the bud, ". . . Unless the method of voluntary cooperation can be counted upon to operate with complete effectiveness it will become necessary to use other means." U. S. heavy industry experts, their talents needed in domestic bottlenecks, have also been summoned home from selling trips to Moscow...
...Peking houseboy mocking his master with the chant : "Mo-yu cou-dzah, Mo-yu wa-dzah, Mo-yu chen, Mo-yu fa-dzah" -he has no pants, no socks, no money, no method...
...absurd to criticize Grosz on the score of techniue, for he is a polished craftsman. In most instances his supposedly crude manipulation of line and what may appear to be a sloppy method of organization, in reality, are masterly examples of precise adaptation of style to subject matter. And it is equally absurd to criticize the Germanborn American on the basis of obscenity or vulgarity. Obscenity and vulgarity, in art at any rate, imply a certain amount of conscious effort on the part of the artist to be either obscene or vulgar; and indications of such a motive seem...
...less unorthodox is Phoneman Moore's midsummer method of taking a swim before breakfast. Stepping onto a balcony outside his second-floor bedroom window, he presses a button. From a swimming pool in the yard a model airplane climbs to him on cables. Sitting on a trapeze slung from the undercarriage, he presses another button, the plane heads for the pool. Mr. Moore lets go in time to flop into the water. On the journey back he just hangs on until the plane deposits him on the balcony again...
...method for halting the war Holmes advocated the repeated intervention of the President and the establishment of a permanent "peace council" of neutrals, in order to impress upon the belligerents that "this country is seeking not to help one side against the other, not to prepare for the fateful moment when she herself may enter the struggle, not even to remain isolated and remote and uninterested, but every day and in every way to make peace...