Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...intention of sending an expeditionary force. We are not misleading England. Indeed, a number of British spokesmen are opposed to an American overseas force. They fear that it would reduce our productive capacity, and they call for aid in material rather than in men. To term our present method of aid to Britain dishonest is patently false...
Instead of using the heating pipes to carry the programs, this year's Network will use the electric light wires. This method has proved successful during the fall trial period. Broadcasting on 800 kilocycles, the technical staff promises that the reception will be as strong as the regular local stations...
...censor-delayed dispatch from India printed in the Christian Century last week revealed that the British Government was taking extra precautions that missionaries should render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's. The method: a revised memorandum covering "aliens desiring to undertake missionary work" in India and Burma. Since World War I the British have required every foreign missionary to pledge that he would "do nothing contrary to or in diminution of the authority of the lawfully constituted government in the country to which I am appointed." The mission board or society which supports him now shares that...
...person I ever heard of or read of in history or in fiction") wanted him to be an artist. So Seton straddled both careers, became rich & famous. Studying art at London's Royal Academy School, he planned a book on the birds of Canada, years later had his method of classification adopted by master Ornithologist Frank M. Chapman. He illustrated Chapman's and Thomas Nuttail's bird handbooks, began writing and illustrating stories...
Roper still considers the quadrennial roundup of U. S. citizens at the polls chiefly as a check on the accuracy of his surveys-a means of calibrating for errors in his sampling method. He pays close attention to the phrasing of questions in his interviews, in order to get the real beliefs of inarticulate or evasive citizens...