Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, I find that I have been duped, taken in, crossed up, and otherwise misled. I read with great interest an article concerning the genus bivalve mollusc, or clam, in your Aug. 20 issue, whereby it would appear some enterprising character named Higgins had revolutionized the time-tested method of clam-digging through the use of a plumber's helper, slush pump, or what have...
This time the method and manner would be different. Would the results be different...
Byrnes is a thoroughgoing Irish extrovert. Common sense is his guide; compromise is his method. He has never made any money; his wants are few (he once described them as "two tailor-made suits a year, three meals a day, and a reasonable amount of good liquor"). He is without airs, without bluff, and without any talent or taste for high society. But he has a courtly, Southern manner, and intense ambition. He is the man who would be President if Harry Truman died...
...Tokyo's Mainichi observed: "According to the notions held heretofore no great power could exist that was not a strong power. Yet . . . can we not . . . build up for the first time in the history of mankind a great power without arms?" It added: "Inevitably the theory and production method of the atomic bomb will have to be made public before long...
...enough water in two drums to irrigate 1,000 plants, has a two-winged blade for digging trenches and flanged wheels for closing them. He showed his labor-saving machine to all & sundry, showed that it could plant at least twice as much as the old back-breaking hand method. But his big selling point was profits. Hudson told the farmers that they could make from two to four times more per acre from truck farming than they had from their conventional crop. They thought it over, then lent him 103 acres to try to prove it-a few acres...