Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...this highly complicated and intricately organized and rapidly shifting economic world, the time has come when a more scientific and businesslike method of tariff revision must be devised. Toward this the new flexible provision takes a long step. ... If, however, by any chance the flexible provisions should prove insufficient for effective action, I shall ask [Congress] for further authority for the [tariff] com-mission...
Senator Grundy: "I am not satisfied with the proposed new tariff law because I do not believe it is a fulfillment of the 1928 tariff plank of the Republican Party. . . . The method by which the bill was drawn up never met with my approval. ... In secret [committee] sessions the provisions were drawn up with little or no regard for the facts. ... I know of no other tariff revision where the administrative features were considered in the light of party politics. . . . On these principal reasons, I base my dissatisfaction with...
...glorified club system and incorporate together with all that is English, dilettahte, and emblazoned, a supreme disregard of the "individual." These epithets, which usually assume the opprobrious position of stigmas when hurled hot in undergraduate conversations, take their origin from two sources. The first of these is the method used for selecting men for the first two Houses, and the second is from the statement made by President Lowell to the effect that the men already in a House will have the major voice in saying who shall go in after them...
...celebrate the 1900th Pentecost, the Christian Herald last month asked Calvin Coolidge, Congregationalist, for a message. His message, on his severe stationery (Calvin Coolidge: Northampton: Massachusetts) : "Of course I appreciate the great importance of the celebration. ... I do not see any method of improving our social and economic relations except through the teachings of religion. In fact it is my belief that we have gone as far as we can in progress and reform until we have a more general acceptance of the truths of religion...
...fault to find with Mr. Shanks it is in his use of "the defective method" so popular now with teachers of literature. At times it seems that he is a little too anxious to discover just what particular poems were influenced by a particular does of laudanum. But this is a literary game highly enjoyed in some of the best company, and at worst, a small point. If reading a biography can approach the benefit of reading the original, this book does. It is a fascinating account of one of the most fascinating figures in literature...