Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Helen Robbins' experience with her twelve bottles of liquor and the customs officer, as my experience was just the opposite. On July 5, 1929 I arrived on a liner from France with some trepidation and three full-sized and ten small-sized bottles of liquor. My method of attack was the same as that of Mrs. Robbins, but the outcome was entirely dissimilar. After regaining his breath after my declaration (oral, by the way) of the 13 bottles contained in my luggage, the customs official merely said: "Tell me which suitcase they are in so that I can miss...
Such could never be the method of President Hoover. Yet last spring he did name Capone by name and though averse to "drives" of any sort by the Federal power, he did tell newsgatherers that concerted Federal action would be taken against the thriving Underworld. He said the line would be prosecution for violations of the income-tax and other (Volstead, Harrison, Mann, Dyer) Government statutes (TIME, May 19). He cited the indictment for income-tax fraud of Scarface's brother, Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, to illustrate the kind of action he meant...
...Grace explained to his mystified audience that the invention is known as the "scrambled speech" method of telephony recently developed by the clever, hardworking scientists of Bell Telephone Laboratories. The invention consists of two complicated pieces of apparatus. One, located at the transmitting end, inverts ordinary speech in much the same way that a camera lens sets the image of an object on its head. Low tones become high squeaks, high pitches turn into low grunts. Tones are changed in frequency, resulting in a language which no eaves- dropper could understand. At the receiving end of the radio telephone...
This system reduces the student from an individual to a mere absorber of knowledge. The University of Chicago hopes to develop an individual by its method of advancement by achievement." A brilliant student, unhampered by the indolent, will be able to make extremely rapid progress and he will have the advantage of personal contact with the professors. This type of education will require a faculty that is not only learned but that can teach as well. It is a glorified tutorial system...
Plenty of seats will be available in the large living room, where the loud speaker will be placed. The radio is being used this year rather than any mechanical device as it was felt that this would be the most satisfactory method of following the games...