Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Everything recommended by the Council had been adopted except the method of finance for the new arrangement. The University had decided to provide the money rather than impose the compulsory fee suggested by the Council...
Property owners muttered darkly. Last week they flocked to the village hall to protest. A contractor pleaded that the all-of-a-kind method was the only economically sound way to build houses these days. Scarsdale wasn't interested. After due deliberation the village board approved a new law designed to make each house-by variation in dimensions or rearrangement of windows and doors-distinguishable from each other...
...these hormones should be considered an investigative procedure, not a treatment . . . It is hoped and believed that [further] studies will in time lead to an improved and practical method of treatment...
...distance about eight times the height of the screen (4 ft. for a 7-in. screen; 6 ft. for 10 in.; 8 ft. for 12 in.). At such ranges, adults' eyes would feel a lot better, and television might even be used as an excellent supplementary method of treating squint or crossed eyes in children. By covering the healthy eye, a youngster's "lazy" eye can be painlessly strengthened while it is focused happily for an hour or more on Hopalong Cassidy and Captain Video...
...Farris method, two immature female white rats are injected with the woman's urine each day. Then the rats are killed. The time when the woman's ovum will be released is predicted by observing the reddening of the rats' ovaries. With that knowledge, a physician can advise a couple when to have relations with the best chance of causing conception-sometimes fixing the time as precisely as a six-to-twelve-hour period, Dr. Farris claims. Some extreme examples: one man left a board meeting, at which he was being elected executive vice president...