Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Nest egg of the foundation is Professor Harry Steenbock's patents on irradiated foods. At the university he discovered a cheap method of developing vitamin D, which protects babies against rickets, in food by treating the comestibles with ultraviolet light. A dozen U. S. food manufacturers now use his process, and pay - because he refused to let business hamper his research work-royalties to the research foundation...
...However, only about three of the five members usually find themselves on the Council for the next year, and since there are three vacancies yet to be filled, I sincerely believe that the final makeup of the Council will be practically the same, though I will admit that the method looks a bit round about and is unusual...
Harvard's educational system has been and will continue to be attacked on the grounds that it attempts to do too much in a limited period of time. The result of its high pressure method has been that many men receive degrees with nothing more than a superficial acquaintance with a large number of names that are valueless beyond the realms of dinner conversation. Fine Arts 1d is a course that tends to give this coruscating but meaningless polish simply because the instructors are not given sufficient time to provide anything else...
Round nails supplanted square nails; welding is taking the place of rivets. Yet brash would seem the man who would change the other vital method of joining parts to parts, the nut & bolt. As old as the Christian era is the principle of the screwthread, discovered by Archimedes, elaborated by Hero of Alexandria. But bolting is far from perfect. Vibration shakes loose the tightest of nuts, and just as for want of a nail the battle was lost, many a time for want of a bolt the airplane has crashed, the train has been wrecked, the powerplant shut down...
...whose physical equipment, intelligence and training fit him to play a given part, Eisenstein looks for a human being who will be the part, whose performance in front of the camera will not be acting but a continuation of the life which that person lives daily. It is a method which may meet difficulties in Hollywood where, in an actor-population, every successful "type" is inevitably an actor-type; but it is practical in a story like Old and New, dealing with an outstanding phase of Russian life, and taken on location...