Word: method
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kingsley Club, enrolled Philadelphians and New Yorkers (mostly businessmen) and set out to cure them of stammering. He gave them deep breathing exercises and "inspiration." had them pronounce words slowly and rhythmically to the beat of a metronome. Then he stood them before an audience to talk. His method worked so well that today his club has 350 members, many of them now ex-stammerers...
...Method of Northwestern's survey was to stop drivers at selected points on the streets, ask them to blow up small balloons. The breath-filled balloon was then tested for alcohol on a "drunkometer" developed by Indiana University Medical School's Dr. R. N. Harger. One driver was willing but too drunk, huffed & puffed on the balloon but could not fill it. Helplessly he turned to his wife and said: "Honey, you finish...
Williams Wants New Method...
Realizing that here we are following where other universities have already made notable progress, John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, stated that "our contribution is to offer a new method rather than to answer a new need...
...large black and white sign bearing the inscription "Chase Animal Farm" adorned the front of Chase Hall over the weekend. Members of the business school dormitory are said to be using this method of fighting the University's removal of several pet rabbits that one of the members had been training...