Word: method
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debatable. They did display the stamina of their Curtiss-Challenger engine and they did strengthen public confidence in flying. Otherwise they accomplished nothing that had not been indicated by previous endurance flights. By operating their motor at low speed they kept it in long life. But that flying method does not help plane owners who must run their engines at high speed to travel from point to point...
...like to give exclusive interviews to one newspaper. . . . Sometimes it is hard to be courteous to newspaper men. When I am courteous and talk to them at all, they want to print everything I say. If I tell them I have nothing to say, they then take some other method of finding a story...
What Mr. Edgerton had in mind when he implied that the tariff rates were not so important as their administration was the two conflicting methods of valuing imports for customs purposes. One method, called Foreign, values an article at its fair sale price in the country of production, i.e., the price at which the importer buys it. The other method, called U. S., values an article at the U. S. sale price of a similar article. Illustration...
Until 1894 there was no exact method of curing diphtheria. That year the German, Emil A. von Behring, progressing along research lines which Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch had opened, discovered that the poisons which the diphtheria germ gave out stimulated, if injected into an animal, antitoxins in the animal's blood. Such antitoxins, injected into an active case of diphtheria, counteracted the effects of the toxins, cured the disease...
...shell was extended. This helped somewhat, but freaks of tone were still audible to a sensitive ear. Evidently the problem was scientific, beyond a musician's province. Conductor Fiedler might have abandoned the shell and tried electric amplification. But this method, with its rasps and harsh distortions, does not please true musicians. At length he consulted Dr. W. R. Barss, professor of acoustics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...