Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method of exaggerating the importance of small minorities this system is quite ideal. The newspapers announce that somebody or other has "swept" a given State, but, when we get the facts, it is found that the "sweeping" consisted in polling somewhere between four and twenty percent of the party vote. It is probable that in all the recent primaries so widely advertised throughout the land there were not so many votes cast for all the contestants as will be cast for President alone in the City of New York next November...
...oars and other equipment will be sent down to New London Monday night, while the launches will be driven down Sunday. This is an innovation, as in former years the coaching boats have been shipped by freight, but as it is easier to take them down by water this method has been adopted. According to these plans all will be in readiness for the crews when they arrive Tuesday...
...have seen many novel means of raising money lately; but the method adopted by Colgate seems to be the most unusual. The local committee in charge of the Colgate Endowment Campaign has decreed that every Colgate alumnus with in the district shall be assessed at the rate of $5 for every inch of waistline measurement above the arbitrary standard of 30 inches...
...lesson of the nation-wide price-cutting wave is that under-consumption is as objective in reducing prices as is greater production. The Kansas City experiment reveals another method of bringing values back to normal. As yet the scheme has not been applied in other parts of the country. The plan has been to use Kansas City for an object-lesson, which, if heeded, will serve to prevent an equally dangerous situation from becoming acute in other cities. The warning may be enough--if not, legislation such as has proved so successful in Kansas City may have to be enforced...
...wholly unprecedented for Congress to use a Joint Resolution for terminating a state of war. Such a method will only serve to draw up into an even worse tangle than now exists. The most serious, however, is that which is entailed by the final rejection of the League. The League with all its acknowledged imperfections, is the only great piece of international construction which the war has produced. It is an experiment which aims to produce in time a better order, and its acceptance is demanded by an overwhelming majority of our people...