Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Huggins' photograph confirmed the chemists' theoretical picture. In his portrait, the twelve dark spots are the carbon atoms (the hydrogen atoms do not show because they are too light in mass to be detected by this method...
...need of adequate fire protection is urgent. . . . The method of alarm at present is totally inadequate. It consists of an old motor horn of the press-bulb type, implemented vocally by the fire chief...
Speaking before a fiscal policy seminar in Littauer Lounge yesterday afternoon, David Lilienthal, Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, explained the function of his organization as the refinement of method and techniques. "TVA has had the task of choosing each step carefully and discarding dogmas," said Lilienthal, in his first appearance at Harvard in two years...
...Germans had reached so far was not officially explained. Most-discussed method: Heinkel pickaback planes had carried the bombs close to England before releasing them. Also possible: bomb-launching submarines, operating off the coasts, or a longer-ranged V-bomb. To the people of northern England, the method did not matter much. The reality was that they were being bombed again. Hastily they remobilized their defenses; in one district the old crew reported for duty ten minutes after the first alarm...
...quantities as election-day weather, the only sin of which Pollster Gallup appeared guilty was that he may have used his Xs to bring down Roosevelt's vote and failed to recognize other X factors which would bring it up again. The astonishing accuracy of this revolutionary new method of measuring public opinion was proven once more by the fact that no scientific poll, including Gallup's, erred by more than 1.1% in forecasting the civilian vote for President...