Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo, Yamashita's wife rejected a suggestion that she appeal to Mrs. Douglas MacArthur. Said she: "The American method of justice is admirably fair. I am pleased with it. I thought my husband should be put on trial . . . because he took command ... in the front." This did not mean that Mrs. Yamashita, too, condemned her husband; she was merely answering a question politely, like a Japanese lady...
...head of the creature it can kill, at any moment, which is to say at every moment. In whatever aspect, its effect is the same: it turns a man into a stone. From its first property (the ability to turn a human being into a thing by the simple method of killing him) flows another, quite prodigious too in its own way, the ability to turn a human being into a thing while he is still alive. He is alive; he has a soul; and yet-he is a thing...
These hungry oil-eaters promise a new method of spotting oilfields. Hydrocarbon gases, such as ethane and propane, often leak in small quantities through the cap rock above an oil pool. When they reach the surface soil, bacteria lap them up, thrive and multiply. By looking for such bacteria, or signs of their past activity, geologists may smell out their larder, the oil pool down below...
...Navy's new method of spotting hurricanes is to keep tabs on "microseisms," the tiny vibrations which continually shake the earth even when the motion cannot be traced to an earthquake. Seismologists have suspected for years that microseisms might be started by vio lent storms, which generally reduce atmospheric pressure, and so take a load off the earth, which then expands slightly under the storm centers...
There are two ways of sculpturing-modeling and carving. Examples of each method were in the news last week...