Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enthusiastic patients, packing the small Chelsea gymnasium to the court's edge, saw baskets tallied by every known method as rapidly as the contestants could toss the ball. The sailors, who relied for their points mainly on accurate shooting from a distance, were led by rugged Dan Bricker, who was high scorer with 24 points...
...accounting the method by which this increase is due; Hansen declares laissez faire obsolete and foretells more government control, more government spending, and a substantial increase in the national debt...
...bench dryly remarked: "He's picked up all of Eden's principles and dropped nothing but his aspirates." (Commoner Bevin still occasionally drops his aitches; during the war he whipped on his workers with "Give 'itler 'ell!") Different as Ernie Bevin is in manner and method from urbane Anthony Eden, and from all the kid-glove and silk-hat diplomats before him, he has not veered from Eden's course. He growled to a friend not long ago: "Everyone is expecting me to change our foreign policy. What these people forget is that facts never...
...rules of interplanetary travel have been fairly well worked out. If a rocket or spaceship zooms off at slightly better than seven miles a second (twelve times as fast as an antiaircraft shell) it will have the force to escape entirely from the earth's gravitational field. Best method is to shoot through the dense lower air rather slowly, to reduce air friction; then shift into high above the atmosphere...
This new theory of fitting the hard of hearing is called the "high fidelity system" since the emphasis is on reproducing the sound with accuracy, rather than merely rounding out the reception of the ear itself. The original method was called "selective amplification...