Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychiatrists were both pretentious and ingenuous in their claims." The war taught them a new humility. Confesses Maskin: "Psychiatry has little or nothing to offer to surcharging men to fight or to persist indefinitely in the anxiety frustration and monotony of contemporary wars. It has developed no effective field method" for cutting down neuroses...
Written by a philosopher, it is readable by any layman who likes to see a tough problem figured out step by step without shirking-a method which the author uses to create a good deal of intellectual suspense. The book arrives at a philosophical basis for world culture. If the world wants one, as down to earth as Marxism but with more than just economic satisfactions, Professor Northrop suggests that the world can have...
...South Sea native's method of catching fish without equipment requires tremendous agility: one hand is dangled in the water, and when the shark or other fish makes a pass, the native grabs it with the other hand...
Floating Power Pile. A teacup of water has enough nuclear power, potentially to drive a large steamship across the Atlantic Ocean. But physicists who have studied the problem believe that an atomic engine will be no teacup affair; the only method they have found to date for releasing nuclear energy is the fission of considerable quantities of a heavy element like uranium...
Harvey reasoned that since female-producing sperm seems to contain slightly more chromatin (chromosome material), it must be slightly heavier. The problem, therefore, is to separate "biological isotopes." Harvey, citing a centrifuge method which has separated the light and heavy parts of sea urchins' eggs, thinks it can be done. His proposal: use a special centrifuge to whirl the sperm; the lighter male-producing sperm will rise to the top, can be skimmed off and planted by artificial insemination...