Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took him only two years to work out his method of extracting cosmic rays from outer space. In 1912 he built a cosmic aerial, a cosmic booster box and a small cosmic rectifier. Jubilantly he moved to Long Beach, Calif., to await recognition...
...barber who found there was money in "sex worship" and later took up Yoga, the Hindu art of controlling mind through muscle-(he trained Prize Fighter Lou Nova for his bout with Joe Louis). Oom said he could help Junior for a "membership fee" of $125. His method: "We kid people out of being grouchy...
...Doctor" Holmes W. Merton of the Merton Institute in Manhattan offered to teach her "the only scientific method of charting the face" for $75, so that she could become a practitioner herself...
Basic tool of Renshaw's method is a gadget for flashing images briefly on a screen. Students are given no time to ponder details; they have to grasp the whole picture fast. Renshaw starts them off with a four-digit number, showing it for 1/50th of a second. As the students learn, the numbers get longer. A student recently reproduced a twelve-digit number (568790154123) after looking at it for less than a second...
...shutdown of three newspapers ended. The strike-born Daily News, published in the last week of the strike by the unions, with an all-star staff recruited from the struck dailies, promptly went out of business. It had made $7,000 in five days' operations by a method it hoped the bosses would never use. The method: no salaries, just a dollar a day lunch money to everybody...