Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debts. Beyond flat refusal to follow the Hoover commission method (see p. 7) his specific remedies for this international complexity remain unknown...
...most discussed presentation at the meeting of the American Academy of Optometry in Chicago last week was Dr. William Feinbloom's method of restoring vision to the 98% blind. Two out of five blind people can see 2%. Heretofore they have been able to read books, magazines and newspapers only with the help of compact field glasses which they wore as spectacles. Such telescopic spectacles both magnify the print (the optical effect) and seem to bring it closer to the eyes (the psychological effect). Those advantages become troubles as soon as the purblind wearer moves around or deals with...
...English teachers is an excellent one, but their method of attaining their end is questionable. Children, to be sure, should be taught both to appreciate the good and to distinguish the bad in aesthetic matters. But in this instance, they are being introduced to one of the worst of the modern travesties on art, before they have more than skimmed the surface of real drama and literature. They have no foundation on which to base any satisfactory evaluation of the movies' actual place in the history of the theatre. Aside from the harmful effects of regarding the movies as something...
...resuscitation in cases where the lungs stop working, Dr. Frank Cecil Eve of Hull, England, is recommending a marvelously simple method which he recently devised. He straps the patient on a stretcher, places the stretcher on a trestle, rhythmically teeters the stretcher up & down. The weight of the patient's viscera alternately pushes the diaphragm up & down, forces air in & out the lungs. Dr. Eve, who is consulting physician to the Royal Infirmary at Hull, 'finds this teeterboard respirator effective in acute diseases; it relieves the patient from any breathing effort. For infants a rocking chair serves just...
Thus last week, at the conclusion of "The March of Time" radio broadcast, was enacted for radio listeners a new method of subscribing for TIME. The announcer further explained: "That's all there is to it. Pick up your telephone now and phone Western Union. . . . They are ready for your call; they will do the rest. No matter where you live, your copy of the issue of TIME from which you have heard tonight's scenes re-enacted will come to you by Western Union within 24 hours. There is no extra charge for this special service. TIME...