Word: methods
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...climaxes of Wagnerian scope into a symphony a half an hour long. Bruckner had great conceptions, but his ideas meander baldly around and get lost in the involvements of the sonata form. Wagner, in order to work out his climaxes fully, had to extend them endlessly. But Sibelius's method is the essence of compactness, entailing none of the delays, enforced hesitations, and bridge-passage gaps of standard symphonic form, but allowing the composer to start on as low a level as he wishes, and move swiftly and cleanly to the peaks. Sibelius's symphonies, especially the last three, have...
...lamps is ionized by an electric discharge between electrodes at each end, produces short ultraviolet rays which must then be converted by a fluorescent powder to visible light. In February Hygrade's chief research engineer, James L. Cox, got an award from N. A. M. for a new method of coating the lamps with a porous powder so that longer rays of the visible range are efficiently radiated. Costly to install, fluorescents waste only 75% of their energy in heat (incandescents waste 90%), are therefore more economical than incandescents in many uses. Millions who saw their cool, ghostly rays...
Since it will have no legal force the measure is merely a method by which the Council can air its views on the subject, it was admitted by Councillor James J. Goode of Roslindale...
...need for better and more experienced tutors, and for members of House staffs who are at the same time tutors, can be met only if the method of appointing tutors and the criteria of promotion are drastically revised...
Calling for a reorganization of the tutorial system, a committee of the Teachers' Union urged drastic revision in the method of appointing tutors, in a report which was received by members of the Faculty by mail yesterday...