Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experimental work of the electromagnetic method was done at the University of California under blond, boyish Dr. E. O. Lawrence; on diffusion, at Columbia under Dr. H. C. Urey. By 1943, before the experiments were completed, vast plants to carry out both processes were being constructed at Oak Ridge, a sparsely inhabited region near Knoxville, Tenn...
...There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily and leaving them to direct themselves," says President Conant. "There is only one proved method of getting results in applied science--picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and keeping their aim on the target chosen...
...have had considerable experience on yachts in storms and have never been sick. I always use this method, and have seen many lifelong sailors succumb repeatedly to the wrong suggestion of illness imparted by motion...
Having seized upon the carrier striking-force concept, the Japanese became infatuated with it, extended it until they were imprisoned within their own task-force psychology.* The method worked well in the southern seas, when any Jap task force was certain to be stronger than any Allied task force. It failed partially in the Coral Sea (where the Japanese first lost a carrier, the Shoho); it failed utterly at Midway...
Long a vanguard authority on atomic structure, he is, say his colleagues, "one of the world's greatest geniuses, no question about it." The Stretch. When, in March 1941, the process was discovered for manufacturing the atomic explosive, chemists feared it would take years to perfect a method of making it in quantity. Measurements accurate to 3% of one microgram (about one two-millionth the weight of a human breath) had to be established...