Word: methods
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...little better than bandits. Munitions and arms including a dozen airplanes were shipped to the support of the Brazilian federals. Statesman Stimson explained that, though this was the first time the U. S. had applied an embargo to a South American revolution, it was no precedent because the same method had been used before under international law to squelch rebellions in Mexico, Central America, China...
...developed a method of sterilizing fly eggs in mercury bichloride solution and incubating them until they hatched into sterile maggots. The Department of Agriculture's job is to develop a method of quantity production. The flies used are the bluebottle (Calliphora erythrocephala) and the greenbottle (Lucilia caesar...
With both parties successfully evading positive stand on any really controversial issue by the familiar "red herring" method, party loyalty and convictions are reduced to mere habits of voting. Perhaps if the, voters were able to force the issue on a burning question such as Prohibition there would be less cant and hypocrisy in the party in power, and elections would be something more than personal mud-slinging contests. The present American party system is the most ingenious yet devised to obscure any question of vital interest to the voter. It is no wonder that politics as a vocation...
...policy of the H. A. A. is not always clear as to the method of apportioning athletic expenses. The general principle is to make no charges save the usual towel and locker fees for group, and team sports while the athletic facilities designed for the individual or pair, must be paid for every time they are used. Tennis, squash and swimming fall under this category but rowing singles, which is surely an individual form of exercise, requires no extra payment...
Pernicious Cinema. Movie pictures of operations have been lauded as a means of instruction. But, "the cinematograph is a dangerous method if it is offered in place of the more laborious method, where the learner comes into direct contact with the patient. For the post-graduate teaching it may prove useful."-Professor George Grey Turner, Royal College of Surgeons, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, John...