Word: method
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administration in bad odor. One was the notoriously unsolved murder of the famed Gambler Arnold Rothstein. To rescue the administration from shame, Grover Whalen was made police commissioner. Soon the shortcomings of the police department were forgotten. Commissioner Whalen completely and drastically altered the city's method of traffic regulation, thereby producing an entirely new furor...
Humble for this ignorance, dentists pointed with pride to a new method of spotting the first speck of decay. Offered by Dr. James M. Prime of Omaha, this procedure is to paint the teeth with ammoniacal silver nitrate which gives "instant warning" by darkening rotting enamel...
Matching these rare forward steps in dentistry was Dr. John J. Fitz-Gibbon's method of covering cleft palates with gold plates. Dr. Fitz-Gibbon, who practices...
...will by putting several balloons out of commission with a pistol. He thought 2,000 four-foot rubber balloons would be enough for a record flight. Last week's ascent, using only 80 balloons, was in the nature of an experiment to test the efficacy of the method. Prof. Piccard took off from Rochester, Minn., ascended to 11,000 ft., came down six hours later no miles away, avoiding the Mississippi River but hitting a tree. He had three methods of releasing or destroying balloons: 1) scissors to cut the balloon cords; 2) explosives on the balloon cords...
Harry Bridges' entrance into C. I. O. may raise another problem for John Lewis. That is the fact that though Harry Bridges is no revolutionist, millions of people think he is. And at the moment the favorite method of attacking C. I. O. is to raise the hoary cry, "Communism!" Typical was a charge made in San Diego last week by E. H. Dowell, an A. F. of L. organizer. He solemnly declared that he had been "authorized" to announce that the Department of Justice had in its possession $750,000 in canceled checks paid to John L. Lewis...