Word: methods
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Uncle of OPA. Where housewives hoped for help, there was only a vague and empty promise of it. The bill contained no workable method for price control...
Under Howard, who took over last November, the letting of contracts has been notably speeded up. Instead of the Government's traditional method of competitive bidding, 90% of all military procurement is now being done by negotiated contract. One thing the Munitions Board has fallen down on, however, is the stockpiling of strategic materials, at present only 38% complete (TIME, Aug. 7); Howard hopes to bring it to 74% by next July...
This "Silhouetteograph" method was devised by Assistant Director of Physical Training Norman W. Fradd in 1923, and has been used on every College class since then. Wellesley, Smith, and Yale have since adopted it, along with many prep schools...
...Roman Catholicism, said the dean, it "is a very successful method of mind cure . . . But with its arrogant exclusiveness and the submission of the intellect to authority, this totalitarian religion, formidable as it is, can never win the sympathy of any liberal...
...patients examined by the balloon method, operations later showed that 17 had cancer. The balloon-smear test had given a positive reaction in 14 of the cases and a suspicious reaction...