Word: methods
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Dear friend," wrote Saint to Viceroy, "I know the dangers attendant upon the method adopted by me, but my country is not likely to mistake my meaning. I say what I mean and think. The only way to conquer violence is through non violence, pure and undefiled. "If, in spite of repeated warnings, the people resort to violence, I must disown responsibility and you may condemn civil disobedience as much as you like. Will you prefer a violent revolt? "History will pronounce the verdict that the British Government, not bearing because not understanding, goaded human nature to violence, which...
Traffic congestion at Tunis and Carthage and in between was snarled. Senegalese troops, big, black upstanding men, assisted frantic local police in trying to direct the streams of vehicles and pedestrians. The Senegalese method was simple. They would club sufficient people to earth so that others could trample through the path. Even Alexis Henry Cardinal Lepicier, Papal legate to the Congress, conspicuous in red robes, had difficulty in getting about. The Senegalese would not let him proceed to the ruins of Carthage's amphitheatre, where centuries ago the Romans after they had rebuilt Carthage fed communistic Christians to lions...
Because of the refusal by the administration of permission to use University bulletin boards and balked by the same situation among storekeepers on the Square, the Square Deal Association has announced that it will resort to the most direct method of reaching the public, that of having a sandwich man walk the sidewalks of the Square carrying notices of the dance...
Noting this, astronomers at first concluded that the moon was off schedule but subsequent checks on other bodies proved earth to be at fault. Gratifying to clock manufacturers was his statement that the slight variation has some method. Earth would, said Dr. Brown, run fast for a number of years, then lag behind. Sudden changes in rotation rate were noted in 1897 and 1917. Causes for such behavior are unknown...
...been experimenting with the photography of sound on the film itself. A new sound-on-film process worked out by Inventor Theodore Nakken, president of Nakken Corp., discards the use of a slit device for limiting the area of photographic sound on a film. Claiming sole rights to this method, and also to the sound-on-film device which employs the slit (Fox Movietone, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO, Paramount), Nakken Corp. has requested an adjudication of patents from the U. S. Patent Office. Last week Warner Brothers-following their policy of pioneering with picture patents-bought 50% of Nakken Corp...