Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following the position set forth in his latest book, "Teacher in America," on the mass production method in American pedagogy, Barzun again asserted that the lecture, as such, slanted from the specialist's outlook, has little value in presenting general education...
Humbly, therefore, the ricksha men beg the Government to promulgate a method by which the ricksha men will be taught another calling and be of use to China's industry. Humbly, too, they beg that the life of rickshas be prolonged for ten years...
Hard-drinking Haligonians have long beefed about the Government's method of selling liquor and beer. They had to pay 50? for a permit, had to wait in slow-moving queues at one of the four Government retail stores. If they were lucky, they got four quarts a month of Canadian rye or gin, or two of imported liquors. Attached to each bottle was an admonition to take it straight home...
...Willamette River, we stopped off at the Crown Zellerbach paper mill. There Crown Zellerbach is converting a newsprint machine to make the kind of book paper we need to print TIME on. They are also installing a new-type coating machine to coat the paper, using a method which Time Inc. pioneered. As you probably know, paper is scarce, but when these machines start producing we expect the quality of paper in the copies we print on the Pacific Coast to be considerably improved...
...through Pullman service. The Department of Justice gave him encouragement last week when it asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ban the sale of the Pullman Co. to a combination of 52 railroads. Although the sale had been approved by a District Court as a method of dissolving Pullman's monopoly, Justice argued that this would merely set up a new monopoly. Justice's candidate for ownership of the Pullmans: Bob Young...