Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went on, "you will ask me now if the plan is a practical one, suitable for immediate use. The only answer is to this is, 'Yes'. According to the estimates my agents send me there are now over two hundred thousand men and women who have resorted to this method of gaining a livelihood and who are getting by. The most conservative estimate of their recovery of gold is fifty cents...
...money failed to stampede President Roosevelt. Nobody was more ready than he to admit that his whole recovery program was experimental, that some parts of it worked better than others, that knots and kinks were inevitable. He was not discouraged by last week's slack-off. If one method of relief failed, he was willing to shift nimbly to something else, improvising as he went along. Currency inflation he still regarded as a last resort, to be used only in the event of a major business relapse. He did not propose to waste his best ammunition now simply because...
Professor Willstätter's method of segregating enzymes is beautifully simple. The enzymes are colloids. White clay (kaolin) filters absorb certain kinds of colloids, alumina filters certain other kinds. Enzymes, which pass through both alumina and clay filters, have a third set of characteristics. By shrewd use of colloidal physics and chemistry Professor Willstatter segregated the three important enzymes of pancreatic fluid-lipase which acts on fats, amylase which acts on carbohydrates, trypsin which acts on proteins...
...claim to the $100,000 willed by the late Horace Elliott Wadsworth as a reward for the apprehension of his murderer. Said John Edwards Sievers: "The coroner said Wadsworth died of 'acute alcoholism.' This is evidence that Satan, or the devil, killed him by an indirect method...
...goods which destroy the demand for old. That process tends to wipe out old industries, causes economic waste. There should be a referee system to control the exploitation of new "direct discoveries" and stimulate the production of "derivative discoveries" which established concerns can use in their business. One method of control would be to force the price of a new article high enough to pay for the manufacturing equipment in a few years. The price would impede the sale of the article, make new manufacturers think long before throwing something new into the market. Meanwhile old concerns with slowly depreciating...