Word: methods
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...critics screamed at generals and admirals. Massachusetts' well-informed young Senator Lodge set the Senate by the ears with a resolution providing what many a temperate critic has long demanded, what many another within the services has secretly advocated: a full, impartial investigation of U. S. defense needs, method, purpose. Congressmen sensitive to clamor from home had up a batch of admirals (Robinson, Furlong, Van Keuren), gave the wallowing sea dogs hell. So hot was the attack that Minnesota's Melvin Maas was at last moved to say: "When peace times are here we jump all over...
Kenneth Hay Kingdon and H. C. Pollock of the General Electric laboratories had isolated small amounts of U-235. But costly, slow and tedious, the method of isolation employs the mass spectrometer the uranium ore is vaporized in a tiny electric furnace, then electrified, and the isotopes are separated and sorted by weight in a magnetic field. The rate of isolating U-235 is one ten-billionth of a pound per hour. It is generally agreed that at least a pound would be needed for practical power experiments. By this method a pound would take about 11,000 centuries...
Best-known method for curing typhoid carriers is cholecystectomy, or removal of the gall bladder, chief breeding ground for the bacilli. But such drastic operations are sometimes unsuccessful...
...parlor doors to seize the Bursar's cards of men who, from choice or apparent necessity, continue to violate the will of the Faculty. It is very likely that tell-tale glibness and vague answers to specific questions will betray students who have not done their own work. This method of detection has already proved successful in History 1, and it is probable that the previous penalty of a cut in the paper's grade will be stiffened...
...third will be in firing with the miniature Bishop Trainer. Developed to provide an inexpensive method of training, the Trainer shoots .22 caliber blanks with a ball bearing as a projectile and replaces the regular 75 millimeter gun which requires a long range and costs about $15 a round...