Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden, startling capture early last week of Eben Emael fortress, potent key of Bel gium's Liege defense system and synonym to Belgians for Security, made the world wonder. Germany officially announced that this exploit was accomplished by use of a new Angriffsmittel (attack method) operated by one Lieut. Witzig, an air pilot who landed his plane inside the fortress and in a few minutes, "despite heavy de fense measures," rendered its 1,000 occupants so defenseless that a mechanized Nazi column which soon arrived easily took the Belgians prisoner...
...Each Has Method...
Each vice-president has used his own pet method to establish contact between the Clubs and the University graduate, varying with the Harvard population of his district. In populous New England between 85 and 70 meetings have been held by the Clubs, while in Montana, a "one man club", W. J. McCormick '07, has been carrying on the entire state organization by himself...
...climaxes of Wagnerian scope into a symphony a half an hour long. Bruckner had great conceptions, but his ideas meander baldly around and get lost in the involvements of the sonata form. Wagner, in order to work out his climaxes fully, had to extend them endlessly. But Sibelius's method is the essence of compactness, entailing none of the delays, enforced hesitations, and bridge-passage gaps of standard symphonic form, but allowing the composer to start on as low a level as he wishes, and move swiftly and cleanly to the peaks. Sibelius's symphonies, especially the last three, have...
...lamps is ionized by an electric discharge between electrodes at each end, produces short ultraviolet rays which must then be converted by a fluorescent powder to visible light. In February Hygrade's chief research engineer, James L. Cox, got an award from N. A. M. for a new method of coating the lamps with a porous powder so that longer rays of the visible range are efficiently radiated. Costly to install, fluorescents waste only 75% of their energy in heat (incandescents waste 90%), are therefore more economical than incandescents in many uses. Millions who saw their cool, ghostly rays...