Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has been much erroneous information published about Lethal Gas Chambers and this method of execution, but I did expect TIME to keep their records straight. My company has designed and manufactured Lethal Gas Chambers for all of the six states mentioned except Nevada and Arizona and including Oregon which was omitted...
...establish a minimum of time for advising. By reducing the number of advisers to about sixty the Board of Advisers has been compacted, which will not only make it easier to keep the members informed but also enable the holding of practical discussions throughout the year on policy and method. Even more necessary is the training of all advisers before they begin to counsel. Full-group sessions should be held in the fall to make each adviser familiar with the curriculum and outside activities, to talk over means of dealing with recurrent problems like discouragement over marks, and especially...
...TIME, March 21 I read that Superintendent Wegner [of Roslyn, L. I., whose "progressive" system of education was recently favorably reviewed by the New York State Education Department] says "in making nut bread the pupils learn to add, subtract & multiply." A similar method of education was used in England in the time of Charles Dickens. In Nicholas Nickleby, the schoolmaster, Squeers, gave the verb "weed" to be spelled, defined and conjugated by the class and then sent them out to weed the garden...
...style method of testing animals' eyesight is to train them to respond to certain visual stimuli. This is laborious, and in the case of some refractory creatures, such as snakes, frogs and Gila monsters, virtually impossible. At the University of Rochester a promising, extravagantly polite young scientist named John Warkentin is investigating animal eyesight with a more efficient technique which requires no training, last week made public some of his findings...
...this country is lowered by the critical indifference of an unexacting and habitual audience. It is significant that the Cinema Guild, recognizing the need for thoughtful criticism of motion pictures, is planning a magazine towards that end. Unbiased and intelligent criticism of past and contemporary films is the best method for developing the critical faculties of the public. It is also their belief that a knowledge of what goes into the making of a film is essential for high critical standards. This can best be obtained from men active in the profession, and an organization which can bring such...