Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method had a cold parallel in the methods of U.S. mass production: interchangeable parts for engines, guns, instruments...
...method of extracting the Japs was a series of inshore patrols by a landing craft. As marines inland prodded every tussock, probed every cave, the LCI cruised close to the cliffs, while a language officer at a loudspeaker urged the Japs to come on down and give up. Among his persuasions: good food, clean beds, plenty of bathing, the chance of honorable surrender. Some of the Japs were persuaded. Many others, still convinced that there was no such thing as honorable surrender, were...
...most remarkable feature of the manual is its method of teaching soldiers to read music as well as to sing. The method uses a simplified system of notation in which the notes look like the holes and slits in an old-fashioned player-piano roll (see cut). By watching them carefully, even the untutored amateur can gauge his rhythm, making the long notes properly long and the short ones correctly short. Added helps are provided by cartoons (by New Yorker Cartoonist Charles Addams, now with the armed forces) which tellingly illustrate the significance of scale steps, sharps and flats...
...solution, sprayed on a wall, has been found deadly to flies for three months. But two British biochemists, G. A. Campbell and T. F. West, think they have developed a method of making it last longer: they mixed it with paint. Using an oil-bound water paint with a 5% DDT solution, they painted the inside of a cage containing fly pupae. It killed the flies as fast as they were hatched. The experimenters found that this method worked just as well in the room of a house and in a factory canteen. DDT may be a common ingredient...
...Henry S. Guterman of Chicago has found what is by all odds the fastest test for pregnancy urine yet discovered. He merely adds sulfuric acid to a urine extract and waits about three hours to see if it turns orange color-indicative of pregnancy. Dr. Guterman reported his method in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Supplement. He claims that his test is as accurate as the well-known one-to two-day Friedman (rabbit) test...