Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic and Republican parties alike contain within their ranks arch-conservatives and arch-liberals, since a Congressman's re-election depends not upon his unswerving support of a party program but upon the satisfaction rendered to his constituents and to pressure groups, and since there is no practicable method of enforcing party discipline in Congress, a Senator or Representative is inclined to vote for local interests rather than for national welfare. Illustrative of this unpleasant truth is the success of the Republican-Southern Democrat coalition, which has pounded the Administration's legislative program into an unrecognizable blob...
...present no fixed procedure more than a few vague precedents for committee elections. As a result, representation has often become sporadic and capricious. The desirability and need for some sort of a plan is evident. Adams House, for example, has had since 1941 a written constitution in which the method of elections is set down pretty clearly. It states both the time and procedure of elections and in some detail the duties of the committee. Noteworthy is the fact that even under the class system on which it was based, this constitution stipulates that the whole committee must stand...
...group III and higher. The implication here is that men of lower academic standing do not fully deserve or will not greatly benefit from tutorial conferences. Yet it very frequently happens that a man of vigorous and original mind is unable to adapt himself to the method of education by canned-lectures and hour quizzes. It is for just such a man that the tutorial system of face-to-face discussion may constitute genuine education...
...liberal of humanitarian principles, he foretold his future when he resigned his position as Treasure representative at the Versailles Conference that he might oppose the ridiculous economic burdens being placed upon a prostrate Germany. An acquaintance with his work shows a man who labored unceasingly to develop a method of escape for a stagnant society...
Last fortnight Manhattan's Eastern Sound Studios practically cleared the barrier with a new and amazingly good method of dubbing. Evidence: Spellbound in Spanish...