Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your review of Lysenko's book, Heredity and its Variability [TIME, Feb. 11], you conclude: "If Lysenko's . . . methods [of stimulating organisms to new directions of growth] really work, the world has a powerful method of adapting plants and animals to the needs of man." It may be stated that methods like those of Lysenko have been tested for decades before his time by friends and foes and neutrals and their verdict has been: "They don't work!" Lysenko has not caused a revolution but has rather gone back to the prescientific era in genetics. Lysenko...
...Piece of Lace. New York discovered Danny Kaye the same night he discovered himself. A song written by Sylvia was the catalyst. Called Stanislavsky, it kidded the great entrepreneur of the Moscow Art Theater, whose "method," according to Sylvia's lyric, consisted of teaching drama students...
...more to him than the demagogical charm that caused a swoon ing woman to cry, "We want sons by Perón." More intelligent than his fellow militarists and politicians, he had noted the cracks in Argentina's feudal structure, turned them to his own ends. His method - the Putsch, suppression of civil liberties, apparent social benefits to the under privileged - was fascist. He had stirred up in the Argentine masses both hope and unrest that would not soon be stilled...
Crossley, also using the telephone method, keeps an interviewing staff busy in 81 U.S. cities. Neither company pretends to judge a program's merits...
Collect the Winnings. Eric Johnston's own method of letting his employes* take a chance was to set up: 1) a profit-sharing plan (this year the employes will divvy up 25% of net operating profit before taxes and dividends, in addition to their salaries and wages); 2) a "junior board of directors," composed of employes who make suggestions to management on company operations...