Word: method
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ludwig. "The professors dislike me because of my method. They cannot excuse my habit of beginning with a vision of my man and then getting my sources and historical details...
...only possible way that Germany can transfer credits so huge that their movement, if made in gold, would disrupt international exchange. The frauds detected, last week, amounted to giving "short measure" to the reputed extent of $12,000,000. To understand how this was done, recall the normal method of paying reparations in kind...
...Frederik Werner Alexanderson, mechanical as well as electrical genius, took Mr. Moore's neon tube and made it the heart of television devices on which he had been experimenting for half a dozen years. The rotating disc with its holes arranged in spirals is his, as is the method synchronizing the television sending and receiving sets. Transoceanic radio and radio telephony are possible because he invented the Alexanderson high frequency alternator. To buy that invention and thus to prevent the British Marconi Co. from acquiring it, the Radio Corporation of America was created...
...which members of the three upper classes will be more or less engaged in educating themselves without help, or, it is added, hindrance from their elders. The great purpose of a college education being to train men to train themselves-a purpose which President Lowell has repeatedly stressed this method is looked upon as an aid to that end. Incidentally, it will reduce the formal teaching period to about the length of that in the English universities, and will give some relief to teachers upon whom increasing burdens have been laid by the more intensive following of the work...
Charpentier has followed the dramatic method of his teacher Massenet, "Louise" is significant for its abundant melodic invention, its captivating coloristic treatment of the orchestra, and for the ingenfous manner in which he has woven the songs by which the peddlers announce their calling into the introduction and first scene of the second act. The role of "Louise" is conspicuously suited to the histrionic and musical abilities of Miss Garden, and the opera as a whole presents a graphic picture of a Bohemian Paris which has almost ceased to exist...