Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believes vocal sounds in every tongue express common mental reactions. On this theory he explains similarities between European and North American Indian speech. Example: in the language of the Algonquian Indian, mundo means God or, literally, "protecting hand"; in Anglo-Saxon, mund meant hand. Explains Adney: "[By this method] I have cracked words and phrases the original meaning of which had been believed lost beyond recovery...
Aside from the fun there is in putting out the paper, the competition furnishes an opportunity for men to become acquainted with the Deans in a method far more pleasant than the ordinary...
Some old Shuster friends were unhappy about his letter. They felt as if he were threatening just about everybody in sight. The pinko-red tabloid PM first saluted Shuster as "realistic, contemporary and liberal," but two days later attacked him for "applying the method of command and authoritarianism...
...surgeons limited themselves to the infected, jeep-riding cases, vied in thinking up ways to cut healing time. One method, the closed technique: stitch the wound up tight to make the edges heal directly together. Dr. Buie does not approve of the closed technique, gives statistics to show that infected cysts recur in about a quarter of the people so treated...
...Sher in the Naval Medical Bulletin sidesteps the whole open *y. closed debate, recommends using the X-ray technique for 30 days in each cyst case before resorting to surgery. Reason: X rays in sufficient quantity will sometimes dry up a cyst, making an operation unnecessary. Advantage of this method: a patient can be on duty all the time except when he comes in for treatment...