Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Black's new method, which he calls "airbrasive," is something like sandblasting, i.e., he wears hard surfaces away with an abrasive propelled by fast-moving air. Into a tooth cavity, a 1/50th-inch nozzle jets a sharply focused blast of fine aluminum oxide particles at 90 pounds pressure per square inch. The jet travels at the rate of 2,000 feet per second. The particles grind the tooth while the air pressure keeps it cool. Another nozzle, on the vacuum-cleaner principle, sucks in the abrasive particles as soon as they have done their work...
...collector (TIME, Oct. 14, 1940). After five years of experiments, in his garage and (after the neighbors complained) in a Beverly Hills furniture store, Di Ghilini developed a recording machine which embosses (presses) a sound groove in a disc instead of cutting it, which is the accepted current method. His embossing system makes it possible to run a record at much slower speed than on the usual phonograph...
...traditional method whereby British parties assess their vote is based on a personal canvass of voters in each constituency immediately after the election campaign opens, again in the middle of the campaign, and finally just before voting. On polling day, it is customary for checkers at the polling booths to ask each voter for his polling number, which gives a clue to his name and address in the electoral register. These checkers often find out from the voter whom he has voted for. The ballot is secret, but many voters, especially Laborites, are quite willing to reveal their vote. Estimates...
...Schillinger "scientific method" of composition, Shaw said, had its beginning in the teachings of the Greek philosopher-mathematician Pythagoras and of Johann
White-haired Juilliard Director George A. Wedge had no fears that his students would be metamorphosed into engineers. He said cautiously: "I thought we ought to see what it's all about. A student can get many interesting ideas from the Schillinger method . . . but he needs a firm classical foundation first. [The course] will not be included in our winter curriculum...