Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sorokin's point of view, we might apply it to America's attitude and reaction to war. Empirically war has been found to cause trouble. Rationally, it is unacceptable. War destroys both men and society. Finally, Americans have a powerful intuitive repulsion to killing. Using Professor Sorokin's integral method of approach it seems clear that people should make a conscious effort to eliminate war, to extract the thorn in the flesh of civilization. However, from its narrow empirical point of view, America acts on its experience that war may be bad for combatants but is eminently profitable...
...method of exploring for metal-bearing ores, described last week at the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, is based on the discovery that plants growing over a metallic ore body contain more of the metal in their tissue than plants growing elsewhere. To smoke out hidden ores, leaves and bushes are burned to ash, and the ash is examined under spectroscopes for significantly high metallic content...
...yeast. The spread of home movies and the problem of storing X-rays in hospitals demanded a non-inflammable film. Cellulose nitrate was highly inflammable. Cellulose acetate was not. Made by treating cellulose (purified cotton linters) with acetic acid and acetic anhydride, cellulose acetate was costly because the method of extracting the two acids from the wood was crude. But Eastman's chemists found a better way, and in 1930 Tennessee Eastman's first cellulose acetate unit began turning out the raw material for "safety film." That done, the chemists turned their test tubes on acetate yarn...
...sideburns and tight pants, he had risen to No. 1 U. S. "soap-slinger," become partner of the soap firm of John D. Larkin in Buffalo, N. Y. His supersalesmanship made a household word of Larkin's Creme Oatmeal Soap. He invented the Club Plan, pioneered the premium method of selling (celluloid collar buttons, buttonhooks, "solid silver" spoons, the Chautauqua Lamp). But at 36 (in 1892) he suddenly sold out for $75,000, enrolled at Harvard as a special student in literature and history. Shortly thereafter he had several bad novels to his credit and had launched his amazing...
...preliminary introduction to the paintings of George Grosz which are being shown in the Dunster House exhibit of contemporary watercolors and lithographs. By making use of a specific example, a painting entitled "The Way Of All Flesh," perhaps a clearer and more concrete expression of the artist's method can be presented...