Word: method
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with slim spatulate fingers runs through his mail. During the morning he drops in at the engineering building, where 460 engineers and draftsmen are at work, to peer at blueprints and drawings. Sometimes he goes through the plant, where 6,000 mechanics turn out his ships in a method as nearly resembling straight-line production as fee aircraft industry has yet approximated. But Glenn Martin does not tinker with airplanes any more. He tells other people what he wants. When he returns to his office he is as unruffled and immaculate as before. A fussy dresser, he goes...
Several days ago the Nieman Fellows received their certificates of achievement from President Conant, thus ending the first year of existence of the Fellowships. If any one thing was shown by the year's experience, it was that the existing method of study has proved valuable in spite of its experimental character...
Three times in the past, the C standard has been raised, but Professor Burbank said that this method would not be used, this year because it also strikes at non-tutoring students...
...changes of pace. Director Barr, whose fragile look is deceptive, stopped short at no dilettantism, worked like hell. Stage designing, posters, industrial design, children's art illustration and many an-other branch of art came in for special exhibitions, each worked up by the Museum's characteristic method: thorough research, orderly classification of the work shown, equal respect for every experimental artist whether probably great or palpably minor, explanatory notes for the public. Not all the Museum's shows have been revelations, some have been merely precious, but the documented catalogues for Abstract Art and Dada-Surrealism...
...small piece by Winslow Homer entitled "Class Day at Harvard" should provide much amusement for seniors who are about to take part in that annual function a few weeks from now; and the Currier and Ives print called "Kiss Me Quick" is a fine example of a Victorian method of amatory advance--now unfortunately outmoded. On the other hand, there are many paintings in the exhibit which are worth serious consideration because of their intrinsic value as works of art. Such a one is Homer's watercolor, "The Berry Pickers," in which the artist's skill in using the watercolor...