Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter argues that "The only method of dealing with the totalitarian powers is to act before they act and thwart them before they have nourished themselves by conquest into a condition of irresistible strength...
...present method of electing a captain has likewise in the past developed active campaigning by players sepiring to that honor and by their closest friends. Politics have been played. Cilques have developed. Bad feeling has been engendered...
...metaphysics I mean analysis leading to full, clear recognition of the unprovable ultimate assumptions which underly all questions. A misplacement of scientific method has made people forget that there are some truths which, like geometrical axioms, are presuppositions and cannot be proved by logic, such as the assumption by every person that "I exist," or the assumption of scientists that there is a fundamental unity underlying all the sciences and all the forces of Nature, or the assumption that underlying all the diversities between tribes, races and nations of men there is a more enduring and more important unity...
...they finally let him speak, his voice, with the flat, deep quality of a bass horn, touched off one outburst after another. Item by item he pilloried the acts of the Roosevelt Administration, interjecting a thunderous refrain: "That is the record of the New Deal. It is not the method of Democracy. I want to unite all people in America. I have no prejudice against any. I want to unite labor, industry and agriculture. I want to unite Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile." The crowd, waving U. S. flags, chanted again as in Philadelphia: "We want Willkie!" During...
...method Steel will use is to interview the inquiring student on his interests and, if he is unable to decide what the student should do, to give him aptitude tests. Having ascertained the field in which the applicant is most likely to be successful, Steele will supply him with data covering all its phases...