Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...managements do it without shame. The papers see it as a 'modern' method of cutting their expenses (and their own payrolls), apparently oblivious to the fact that they are sacrificing the vaunted freedom of the press...
...means to combat effectively typhus fever, Hans Zinsser, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology; John F. Enders, assistant professor in the same field, and Dr. Harry Plotz, visiting research expert from the Pasteur Institute of Paris, announced yesterday in the publication, Science, the discovery of a new method making possible the production of enough vaccine to immunize an entire nation from the louse-carried scourge...
...such a hard job to do this as it might seem. Once an examination requires more than the parroting of memorized facts and theories, it has already beaten the tutoring game. A good exam is a test of the comprehension of material, and its method is to require original thought based on the material, or to require a variety of interpretations of the material. Tutoring schools can't help here, because all they can do is pound home a few dozen essential facts, and perhaps hand down a two-bit stock interpretation of these facts. If the exam questions involve...
...Push. Last week Joseph Stalin adopted a new method in his month-old effort to conquer the Finns. Up to the Mannerheim Line he moved more and heavier artillery, including some "Little Berthas" and fresh troops from Siberia and the Caucasus, trained for bitter-weather fighting. To launch his new offensive he sent 38-year-old General Gregory Stern, who until recently was commander of Soviet forces in the Far East, gave the Japanese a good trouncing at Changkufeng. (His grocer brother Morris, unearthed in a Los Angeles suburb last week, said: "I don't like it. Finland...
...considerable. It lies in the fact that he has been able to fuse the detachment of a social historian with the vision of a creative artist. From a formal standpoint Verdun proves him at least the equal of any modern writer who has employed the same method...