Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Method. Ultimate objective of Federal Union would be a world federation of democratic states. For a beginning - the U. S., the United Kingdom, Eire, New Zealand, Australia, Union of South Africa, Canada. Pending a Constitutional Convention, Author Streit would set up an Inter-Continental Congress with one representative for each member democracy, plus an additional representative for every 5,000,000 inhabitants. (The U. S. would have 27 votes, the remainder 22.) Until direct elections of intercontinental congressmen could be arranged, the President could appoint them, with Congressional approval, or let Congress pick them from a list of Presidential recommendations...
...with a superior technique, and with what impresses me as being a far greater sensitivity to the melodic potentialities of his instrument. The result is that Hall plays the best hot music you can hear on clarinet these days. Every note is a rhythmic best, hard and staccato, a method of playing which can pick up even the most lifeless of bands and make them really kick. Yet at the same time he never forgets his own musical ideas, and expresses them with a spontaneity which can be awfully refreshing after listening to Artie Shaw choruses, which are executed with...
Logic is a very specialized field, taken only by a few men, but this is no reason to shy away if you happen to be interested in the logical method. Quine is himself a famous logician, and his Phil. 1 is excellently handled. But before taking it, have a good memory and be able to think symbolically...
Bradford accused the mayor and Mannos of undertaking a two million dollar building program when the former entered office in 1938 as "a means of setting up a method to collect" from each engineer and architect "one-third of the fees received." These fees totaled about $120,000, giving Lyons...
...waiters insist the only satisfactory method of dishing out salad is by hand, and that all guests are given the same food as the students, although they "may, in certain cases, receive better service...