Word: method
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university authorities because he was under U. S. indictment for passport fraud. When Yale undergraduates also invited him, urbane President Charles Seymour said he would not interfere. His reason (laid down two years ago in his inaugural address): "The London policemen in Hyde Park have learned that the surest method of exposing incompetent charlatanism is to give the charlatan a protected forum...
...swallowing air and belching it out in grunts, but until Temple University's Dr. Nathaniel Martin Levin built belch-talk into a system, most larynxless men could never hope to speak again. During the past three years, brief, brisk Dr. Levin has taught 30 men belch-talk. His method is simple, takes some patients only one or two days to learn, is most successful when started right after the operation. A patient swallows air through his mouth, pushes it right out again with his abdominal muscles, chops it into speech with his teeth, tongue and lips as he expels...
Carl Sandburg's method with Lincoln is to light up in every way possible the men and the problems he faced from week to week, to relate with exactness what he did and said, to tell in their own words what the contemporaries thought or printed about it (Nicolay & Hay, Lamon, Herndon and the other biographers bearing witness among hundreds less known), and to let his own extraordinary insight play upon the record. As an incidental part of this process, he brings to life the principal political, journalistic and military figures that surrounded Old Abe from his first week...
Leontief pointed out the close resemblance between Stalin's method in gaining Finland and Hitler's in seizing Czechoslovakia. In both cases there was a strong campaign against the smaller state, culminating in an ultimatum and finally invasion. Since the Finnish cabinet resigned yesterday, Russia will probably see to it that the next one is composed of pro-Russians, as Germany set up Hacha and his aides in Czechoslovakia...
...strange step backwards, the Division of History-Government-Economics is applying an old and useless method of correlation to take the place of the examinations abandoned last spring. They are demanding that seniors in the fields of government and economics, and not in history, take one full advanced course inside the division but outside their field of concentration. It remains a mystery why the division considers that a single advanced course in addition to the regular requirements can by itself solve the thorny problem of correlation...