Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combined to frustrate the line-holders in the past. Would they do it again? With a show of confidence, Boss Porter said no, declared that OPA now had 2,500 investigators, double the old staff, to nail the black marketers. He also had a big enforcement budget, a method of centralized slaughter control and a lot of hope. He would need it all to keep the black market out of the nation's butcher shops...
...buildings which have been especially prepared for this type of broadcasting. In its first year, programs were sent out on the steam heating pipes, but it was found that the waves were going well beyond the legal limit of the station's license, and the electrical wiring method was adopted...
Houdini's method is to rile his opponent by musical insults. He won his first war by being so insulting to two opponents at the same time that, after 45 minutes, they stopped to congratulate him on his virtuosity. His toughest battle was against the old Master, Lord Executor, until he found a fatal weakness to sing about: Executor's big toe had just popped out of his canvas sneaker...
...Method & Error. Professor Northrop, who teaches the philosophy of science at Yale, will not abide condemnation of science as such. "Nothing," he says, "can do more harm to democracy than the thesis, so popular with many contemporary moral and religious leaders, that science is neutral, if not positively evil, with respect to human values...
Scientific method is all right, the glory of the West; but the "modern" views of the world constructed on it were flawed by a basic error. Northrop is not alone in finding this error in John Locke, whose 17th Century philosophy contained the premises of Jeffersonian democracy, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The error consisted in the theory that "physical substances" (space, planets, flowers) are definable only in Newtonian terms (extension, mass, volume), thus have no sensuous qualities (depth, heat, fragrance) but are supplied with them by the "mental substance" of the observer...