Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...security of Russia can only be maintained when every country in the world has adopted the Soviet system. . . . I do not deny the right of Russia to pursue her own . . . industrial revolution, but for us . . . who started our industrial revolution over 150 years ago, to adopt the Russian method would be really retrogressive...
...this new seeding method makes the Papago Reservation lush with Lovegrass, Dr. Adams intends to try it on other denuded regions in the dry Southwest. He looks forward to the time when his man-made bird-pellets will be used to reseed all Western rangelands every ten years...
Hawaii's Territorial Board of Agriculture and Forestry, troubled by two new pests, hoped that the old method would work again. The pests: 1) the anacamptodes moth, a bright little creature whose larvae have riddled the islands' main forage crops; 2) the pineapple mealy bug, a small, white, wingless sapsucker that might wilt every pineapple plant in Hawaii if costly spraying were halted...
...classic method of bug control-fight bug with bug-is still the best, cleanest and most economical. When it works ideally, the first bug is eliminated, and the second dies of starvation. More commonly, both bugs survive, reduced to harmlessness...
...gain such knowledge they have been tagging whales, as ornithologists band birds, shooting markers into them in the hope that they will be recorded when the whale is eventually harpooned. This method has already proved that many whales are migrants. They mate and bear their young in tropical waters, usually in fall or winter. During this period they live partly on their fat, for their food is comparatively scarce in the tropics. In spring they move poleward, spend the summer in arctic or antarctic waters. Here the surface swarms with "krill," or free-swimming crustaceans, which they strain...