Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This filthy work of plotting, planning, sneaking, lying, spying, cheating, stealing, smearing, in the mere HOPE of one day overthrowing our American form of government." Cissie's final medical diagnosis: the "liberals" were "crazy all right, but . . . crazy like foxes" and sometimes there was "a fine method in their madness...
...present is that a vaguely defined tutorial objective is in competition with graded courses. Naturally, the student will devote whatever proportion of his effort he thinks necessary to getting the highest possible marks before he concerns himself with tutorial. Yet since the whole value of tutorial as a special method of instruction lies in its flexibility and in the avoidance of marked quizzes and exams, we must not convert it into another course by applying course ratings...
...Some way must be found," was the lame conclusion of 1942, "to make tutorial equal in value with the work of any given course without destroying the tutorial method. This means . . . giving the tutor the sense that the quality of his tutorial instruction is as important to his personal future as the quality of his research; and . . . giving to the student the feeling that his education would be incomplete without tutorial." The '39 conclusions were more specific...
...method, it was like any Tory budget. But its arithmetic was drastically different, not because socialists had written it but because Britain was at peace. Hugh Dalton achieved a miracle: he pleased almost everybody. To Britons, his budget brought a 10% cut in the standard income-tax rate, more deductions for wives, the abolition of a 33 1/3% tax on household goods. For business, the excess-profits...
...charge as much for a glimpse as for a complete physical. Others rush patients through their offices at the rate of twelve an hour. Some New Zealand lawmakers are considering putting doctors on flat salaries. But some experts think they would do better to adopt Britain's successful method of "panel doctors": let each doctor charge an annual fee for each patient on his list...