Word: method
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only sure, scientific method of determining whether an organ is cancerous is microscopic analysis. With a sharp, hollow steel needle a pathologist draws from a suspected growth a bit of living tissue, which is immediately frozen by a stream of carbon dioxide from a high-pressure tank. Then it is cut into thin sections and mounted on a microscope slide. The whole procedure takes only a few minutes, is usually performed while a patient lies on the operating table. If microscopic examination shows that the cells are malignant, a surgeon can start to operate at once...
...that time Blake had worked out a method of color printing by which he produced editions of his own symbolic and prophetic writings from engraved plates, with his drawings as "illuminations." These books are famous. He was, then and later, thought crazy for lines like this: "Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires." After 100 years the idea became Freudian and hence something to think about...
Sink-&-Float. If a handful of bird shot mixed with sawdust is thrown into a pail of water, the shot will sink, the sawdust float. Reason: the specific gravity of water is greater than wood's, less than lead's. The flotation method of separating ores from waste, using liquids of higher specific gravity than water, has been used for nearly a century. For over three decades E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. has been trying to devise an economical flotation method for separating impurities such as shale and slate from low-grade anthracite coal. For "parting...
...believe in the fundamental rights of man, in free and open discussion. You come in contact with opposing organizations; you should seek to exceed them in being right. If I understood your purpose and your method, I devoutly hope for your success...
...best method Fitzpatrick has yet devised is to stagger in with a champagne glass, pretending to be just "one of the boys." When asked what was his most embarrassing moment, the scourge of the pretty debs blushed while admitting that once he cut in on an old man dancing with a "fetching girl robed in white taffeta" (courtesy Betty Alden's column, "On Beacon Hill") and asked her "Who was that old geezer you were dancing with?" The fetching girl etc. responded lightly and politely, "Oh him. He's my father. He's giving the party...