Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victims, ten have cancer of the prostate, but only one of the ten gets to a doctor in time for successful treatment. In the current American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Robert Gutierrez of New York suggests that this proportion may eventually be raised to eight out of ten. His method: stilbestrol is used first to reduce an advanced cancer (too far gone to be surgically removed) to smaller, more manageable size. Then, he says, the growth can be cut out and the patient may have years of useful life...
...Hollywood's golden sky, it looked like a cloud no bigger than a publicity man's handout. But by last week it was a fat thunderhead of pressagentry that threatened to soak the U.S. right down to its grass roots. Paramount called it a "motion picture merchandising method...which sets a completely new standard in harnessing opinion-influencing power to film promotion...
...Economic Development (397 pp.; the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.; $4). On the strength of 30 years of his own study and the institution's voluminous research, Moulton declares: 1) there is no known limit to the potential wealth of the world, and 2) there is no known method to assure economic stability...
...Though he can neither read nor write, 25-year-old Lewis West of Miami, a Negro, managed to get himself sentenced to 23 months in prison for forgery. His method: he simply stole Government checks from a mailbox, marked them with an X and got obliging neighborhood merchants to cash them...
...shares his course with three other professors, each with his own ideas on teaching science to the layman. Conant's device is to use a sort of case method. If pupils can understand how science solved specific problems in the past, he thinks, they will soon understand the scientific method in general...