Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual method: trace an outline of the child's hand, draw in life-size warts with a red or blue pencil. The child is told to look for "a very faint tingling in [his] warts. . . . That is a sign that they will soon disappear." The child takes the chart home, daily compares the real warts with those on the sketch, notes their shrinkage. Treatment is not confined to the hands. For the nine-year-old daughter of a skeptical dermatologist, Dr. Vollmer was able to charm away a faceful of warts in six weeks...
...which he distrusted and did not understand, Hawthorne dipped back into the seventeenth century. To Wilson, convinced that Western society is breaking up, appalled by Stalinism, the tensions of his times are intolerable. finding that the times are out of joint, Wilson has, like Hawthorne, discovered in the Puritan method of allegory, with its abstract concept of Evil, the only possible vehicle for his story...
There might be method in the Army's apparent madness. Said a prospective witness: "They want you newspaper guys to get fed up and clear out. When there's no more interest in these things in the U.S., they'll start slinging...
...Secretary of State then broke a 149-year U.S. tradition against entangling alliances, urged a 25-year renewable Big Four treaty to "insure that the total disarmament and demilitarization of Germany will be enforced as long as the peace and security of the world may require." The method: strip Germany of all war-making power, keep her stripped by setting up a four-power inspection system and military force to pounce on the slightest infringement. He also offered a similar treaty on Japan. The U.S. was willing to keep troops in both enemy countries until the four Allies agreed that...
...Teaching] should at teast not be an obstruction to learning," says Professor Hook. "What the educational system of America needs is at least a million good teachers." Hook's good teacher is a dedicated person, teaching method rather than content, and encouraging critical dissent. Classes, he thinks, should be taught by discussion rather than lecture, and limited to 20 students. Hook admits that his ideas would make education expensive to the community, but adds: "It should be. Is there anything more worthy of spending our money...