Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...private oil companies (TIME, Oct. 6 et seq.). Mr. Kelley, longtime Denver field chief of the General Land Office, argued that these lands contained oil worth 40 billion dollars. The Attorney General and the President retorted that "these oil shale lands have little present value" because no commercial method has yet been developed for extracting oil from shale at a reasonable market price. To this the World in turn retorted: Why, then, have big oil companies been so eager for the land ? Try and buy some now and see how "valueless...
...system. Now air is pumped into a channel under the roadbed, let into the tunnel proper through slots at the curbs, pumped out through a channel above the ceiling. Thus no longitudinal draft (a fire and health danger) is created. Engineer George A. Posey adapted Mr. Singstad's method to his 3,545-ft. Oakland Tube. The Detroit & Canada Tunnel (thus incorporated) is ventilated by a system derived from Singstad and Posey. At each end it has six intake, six exhaust fans, capable of supplying 1,000,000 cu. ft. of air per minute and of changing the entire...
...experience of the first two units has shown that another plan than theirs would facilitate purchases, and it is with this in mind that the other Masters have made their arrangements. Books are either being ordered direct from publishers, or through an agent. This method not only relieves the College Library of a great amount of extra work, but also allows each House to keep its purchases intact. Cataloguing will, it is expected, begin in the near future. It is hoped that all books will be on the shelves some time before the units are thrown open to undergraduates next...
...heredity he is naturally affiliated, when Professor Lake broke his nerve and his enthusiasm. In one brief digression, the dauntless archaeologist hewed the democratic system in pieces before the Lord. It seems that Saul. sensing that the Lord was somehow not at home, resorted to the time-honored method of casting lots to determine the guilty. This expedient, declared Professor Lake, has its modern counterpart in the casting of votes, whereby a question can be easily settled by taking the opinions of all those who know nothing about it Upon which, the Vagabond began to wonder whether, if Jonah were...
Says he: 70% of all convictions are obtained by forced confessions. Mildest method: protracted questioning, sometimes going on continuously for over 24 hours, keeping the prisoner awake, thirsty, hungry. Usual method: beating the prisoner about the head and neck with lengths of rubber hose (which leave no bruises). If that fails to work, fists, boots, bats, lighted cigars may jog the suspect's memory. Scars or bruises are explained by saying the prisoner "fell downstairs." But Lavine tells of other refinements: "I have seen a man beaten on the Adam's apple so that blood spurted from...