Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...much this outdated method of calculating horsepower for taxation purposes has cost the British nation in lost export trade it would be impossible even to estimate! Designers are still obliged to keep the bore-stroke ratio disproportionate for economic results. The American manufacturer has benefited enormously by our persistent folly and is able to produce his vehicles considerably cheaper by the adoption of a shorter stroke and larger bore...
...slice of tissue on a glass slide. The cells are either dead in the beginning, else die during the handling. Or it is possible to grow the cells in "tissue cultures," as Dr. Alexis Carrel has for years grown embryonic chicken tissue at the Rockefeller Institute. This in vitro method, however, fails to give an exactly truthful picture of all cell growth...
...last week. They studied the arrangement of a lot of pipes and tanks, and of a board, covered with levers, buttons and gauges beside which stood Dr. Georges Claude, French academician. After three years of patient work, Dr. Claude was ready to give the first public demonstration of his method for taking Power from the sea (TIME, Sept. 22 et ante...
...accident, he went to no college, but was tutored in the science of telephony, accounting, commercial law. Now he golfs, motors, fishes, hunts. His summers are usually spent in a palatial home at Madeline Island, Lake Superior, where plies his yacht. In running his business he has one unusual method: when he finds a good man he immediately gives him a long-term contract, sometimes for as long as 25 years...
...Luton, England (where most English straw hats are made), Rev. J. W. Woodhouse set about to raise $5,000 for the building fund of new St. Andrew's Church, which sum would meet the condition of a promise of $25,000. His method: sitting in the porch of the old church until, after three days, parishioners brought him the money...