Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...existence of such an aid would have been doubted before the war," said Davis, "because it war formerly felt that fitting a hearing aid was like fitting a pair of spectacles. Each individual deviation was measured, and made up by specific compensations in the old method...
...collecting tips for dining hall waitresses). Permission from the Dean's office was not granted, however, because of a University regulation restricting solicitation of funds by students or student organizations on University property, and it was suggested that the H.L.U. conduct the collection by mail. Unfortunately, such a method is not feasible inasmuch as postage costs alone would come to $100. Furthermore, permission to hold a meeting in Emerson Hall would be withheld if a fund collection were conducted there...
...Lysenko's "disestablishment" methods really work, the world has a powerful method of adapting plants and animals to the needs...
Mark Twain paid his fee to this kind of greatness by pouring most of his fortune into a patent clamp to keep babies from rolling out of bed, a checkerboard game for teaching world history (he invented these himself), a patent steam generator, a steam pulley, a new method of marine telegraphy, a device for deodorizing gas-logs, copper type faces, a typesetter. When Author Twain entered old age, some half a million dollars in the red, he attributed his losses to the fact that the world was overrun with "idiots," "moral icebergs," "thieves,'' "swindlers" and "pirates." Outstanding...
According to O'Donnell, "this is the first time I know of that all four organizations have been on a speakers' platform together. I hope this method of bringing the problem of veterans' groups to American students will be adopted around the country, for there is no other way that a fair presentation of the entire situation can be made...