Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture is directed to the last gasp and shudder by Robert Siodmak (Christmas Holiday, Phantom Lady), who was born in Memphis, Tenn. but developed his talent for terror in the great studios of pre-Hitler Germany. Notably frightening scene: suspicious Inspector Ridges re-enacting the probable method of murder for the appalled widower while the camera, taking possession of Laughton's brain, flicks from bit to bit of the scene of the crime, turning a dark wardrobe, a torn stair-carpet, into so many kicks in the emotional midriff...
...demon step test which every incoming Freshman must take is a direct outgrowth of treadmill experiments, as the method of measuring fatigue in relation to heartbeat acceleration was developed by the Fatigue...
Bragg's method required weeks of laborious calculation. Dr. Huggins reported that, by means of a set of standard light-band masks, he can make a portrait of a molecule in half an hour...
...Downs. Ruml is sure that public works as a method of stabilizing the ups & downs of business might as well be abandoned. His reason: public works on the vast scale required would be impracticable. Instead, he would use public works as a means of stabilizing the construction industry. His hope: if this seasonal, up & down industry representing 8% of the national product could do a steady volume business, it would give stability to the whole economy...
Boston Adventure attempts not only the Proustian sentence structure and philosophical overtones, but also the use of fantasy as a literary method. Sonia, who spends a disturbing amount of her childhood sleeping on the floor on a pallet, dreams about a wealthy, untouchable Boston spinster named Miss Pride. She met Miss Pride while working as a chambermaid in the Hotel Barstow in Chichester, just outside Boston. "Over and over again," dreams Sonia, "until my eyes closed, I imagined the day on which my parents would die and Miss Pride would come to take me to live at the Hotel...." Eventually...