Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Your article on Quakerism [TIME, Nov. 18] is not only well researched and ably documented but it also caught the essentials of the Religious Society of Friends as a movement. Noteworthy is your reference to the Quaker method of conducting business. Not as well known as the meeting for worship, the meeting for business is original and unique...
Particularly in the days when discussions about the veto bog down United Nations procedures, the Quaker method of getting "the sense of the meeting" by creatively weaving together majority and minority opinions into a "minute" acceptable to all might be used much more in government...
...also disclosed that any delegate chosen by the College whould be supported financially, either from student Council funds, or with money collected at next week's Jan Masaryk talk, for which 25 cents admission will be charged. If enough money is not collected by the latter method, student approval for a Council subsidy will be sought on the ballot which will be sought on the ballot which will pick the delegate...
...hustled out of college by the credits they received for Army training in mathematics and electronics have not quite achieved their educational goals. But they maintain the position that the sacrifice of a few terms of those men's careers is the lesser of two evils, a necessary method f making room for other worthy suitors for Harvard's opportunities...
...encouraging factor is probably atomic energy. Chief trouble with earlier death rays was that no known source of radiation was strong enough to kill at a distance. But atom bombs do kill by radiation, mostly heat and gamma rays. If a method is developed to concentrate nuclear radiations into a narrow beam, death rays may be available to enliven World...