Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Guernsey, ancient fief of the Dukes of Normandy, enjoy the finest climate and the lowest taxes in the British Isles, but they have their own special coins and measures (eight doubles: one penny; one vergee: 0.4 acres) and their own archaic and particular means of legal redress. The method of obtain.ng a civil injunction in Guernsey is curious, simple and direct, consists in raising a Clameur de Haro in the presence of witnesses...
...more tempered enthusiast who does not wish to make sports the sum total of his extra-curricular activity. However, the day "when ten Harvard teams will meet Yale's ten" might well fulfill this function and further induce some to compete who otherwise would not be interested. As a method to provide more exciting athletic interests for the many and to promote closer acquaintance with other colleges, the ideas suggested by Mr. Bingham's report deserve consideration...
...practice of holding a class rush which persists as a hallowed tradition in many otherwise sanely conducted colleges, originally conceived with the aim of promoting class spirit, has achieved in practice more distinctive 'success' as a method for annually mangling a few unfortunate participants. Class unity can be achieved through less drastic measures, and although Amherst's recent contribution was the first time a class rush has developed into a conscientious attempt at whole-sale murder, class rushes even when conducted in a temperate frame of mind are inevitably accompanied by casualties due to the indiscriminate milling of a large...
...this oath meant little to the critics of the Supreme Court. Washington's Senator Dill, who had shouted that Abraham Lincoln would have had no chance of appointment today as Chief Justice because he would be rated a "radical,''* warned that the people would find a method of curbing the Supreme Court if it did not change its ways on economic questions. The Senate was shocked at his passionate use of the word "revolution." Senator Norris predicted that the Hughes appointment would become an issue in the next campaign, called it "Banquo's ghost come back...
Happy Days (Fox). This is one of the new enlarged pictures, samples of which have been issuing from Hollywood from time to time and which, on the Fox lot, are known as Grandeur Pictures. Last year a method was perfected for taking oversized pictures by photographing them on unusually big films, with lenses in proportion, instead of exaggerating an ordinary film in projection. Concocters of Fox publicity announced that Fox experts had found a way to make films "in three dimensions...