Word: methods
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...manufacturers used last year, little changed, to turn out some $50,000,000 worth of mirrors for thousands of uses from microscopes to cocktail bars. The curious fact about the industry was that it had never been able to make a substantial improvement on Liebig's method. In most of the 500 U. S. plants, workmen with porcelain pitchers tediously hand-poured the liquid on flat plates of glass, had to wait a half-hour or more for the solution (silver ammonium nitrate and Rochelle Epsom salts) to deposit its silver...
...months ago, not to write film plays but because of his eyes. In 1911 he contracted keratitis, which, he says, "left one eye slightly, and the other almost completely, covered with scar tissue, besides inducing large errors of refraction." He went to Los Angeles for instruction in the Bates method of training his eyes to "relax." Although he moves about like a partially blind man, and his right eye looks blind (a blue film), he now reads without glasses, can do things "I couldn't have any more done than a fly a year...
...year-old Helen herself, but in a series of letters from her 63-year-old mother to her ten-year-old daughter.* For the reader who can grit his teeth against all Grandma's "Mary darlings" and "Mary sweets," and survive all her gushing over Helen, the method has its points. It saves Helen from having to blow her own horn, and it makes for a fairly frank, highly chatty tone...
...Sando, 45, U. S. Department of Agriculture biochemist, gets rather excitable when he has two cocktails in succession. One evening last week he had three. But it was quite an occasion. Philadelphia's Franklin Institute had opened the first big public showing of Dr. Sando's neat method of preserving biological specimens (and almost anything else, for that matter) in blocks of transparent, synthetic resin...
...Best method is for each student to leave in his bluebook at each examination an addressed postcard, which the instructor in the course can fill out and send to him as soon as the grade is determined...