Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles to Bakersfield, Calif, stretches the Ridge Route, a treacherous ribbon of curves and grades famed both for its scenery and its danger. After 51 motorists had been killed on Ridge Route in 15 months, Chief E. Raymond Cato of the California Highway Patrol decided on an ingenious method to cancel the carnage, put it into effect last week on a 62½-mile section of the Ridge Route from Castaic Junction to Arvin Road...
Britons read with bug-eyes last week that the secret Nazi fleet maneuvers had been observed and reported by a method which smacked of the British Intelligence Service and of smart Sir Samuel Hoare. As a young Intelligence officer in Tsarist Russia, ingenious Sam Hoare knew of the assassination of Rasputin so soon after it occurred that the Imperial Police investigated. It was ultimately necessary for the British Ambassador to assure Nicholas II that Sam positively had not had advance knowledge of the deed done by assassin Prince Felix Youssoupov and friends. Last week Augur (Vladimir Poliakoff) famed London special...
...Arthur Holly Compton is best known for his (1 contributions to the field of medicine, 2 flight to the stratosphere, 3 invention of a cheaper method of steel production, 4 prominence as President of the University of Chicago, 5 researches on cosmic rays...
...Method: dilute the enzymes with a small quantity of plain water, pour in two glasses. Drop pieces of the hard-boiled egg-white into both glasses. Into one glass, pour the alcohol, let both mixtures set overnight. By morning the egg-white in the alcoholized tumbler will still be there, unaffected, whereas in the unalcoholized tumbler, the egg-white will be liquefied...
...information about lodgings: a double postcard listing three addresses in Cambridge, at any one of which accommodations may be obtained. It is requested that the return postcard be detached and mailed to the Bureau, giving the address where accommodations have been obtained, the number in the party, the method of travel, and the expected duration of the stay...