Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after a month-long hurly-burly of tough talk and newspaper publicity, Steubenville's eager preachers were turned down. At the same time, 300 miles away in Louisville, Ky., the Committee on Institutions of the Louisville Council of Churches was applying its own method to the problem of local crime. To Steubenville's rampageous reformers the committee's methods might seem sissified. But they have one peculiar advantage: they are working...
...proposed method of nomination, however, appears doomed to failure. Trying to rid itself of the objectionable nominating committee method of putting men on a ballot, the new constitution would require 25 percent of the total House membership to be present at an open nomination, the alternative being another, but non-Council, nominating committee. In the light of the poor attendance at the Constitutional Forums, 25 percent, or about 80 men per House, seems an absurdly high attendance figure...
Greene to Hearst: "We do not have to show the dream at the beginning and end of every page. ... If we simply call the comic something like Dreamer Dick, we would have more freedom. . . . Some device other than the dream might be used. . . . A simple method would be to have him curl up with a history book. . . ." Hearst to Greene: "If we find [the first series] is not a success, of course we can brief it, but if it is a success it should be a long series...
Costumes and settings met the standard, too. Employing the familiar inner and outer stage technique for the 18-scene drama, Directress Mary Howe used a simple method with startling effectiveness in scenes of poverty and grandeur alike. And Catherine Huntington's costumes--wherever she searched them out--were rich and 17th century...
...fastest-growing schools of therapy in the U.S. is based on pain-killing as the complete cure for many ills. Its chief method: a comparatively new technique of anesthesia known as "nerve block." Out last week was a new text (Conduction Anesthesia; Lippincott; $15) which held that nerve block is often the cure for sprains & fractures, hiccups, headaches, frostbite, sciatica, neuralgia, a score of other painful disorders...