Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collection of garbage− Miami's method of counting noses −was getting heavier every week. . . . The season broke early and big. The race track at Hialeah is taking in more than $600,000 a day− one day it made a record by passing $1,000,000-and the dog tracks do as much as $100,000 apiece at night. . . . Real estate is changing hands at million-dollar tunes. . . . The beaches are deep in vacation humanity, the nightclubs are roaring in spite of a midnight curfew on drinks,* and Midas has moved back to Miami...
...beet-seed cluster may have as many as six seed germs, and plants grow so close together that the only practical thinning method is with the fingers or with short-handled hoes. Reducing the seed clusters to single seeds had baffled many previous experimenters. Plant breeding had failed. Bainer tried grinding the clusters, but that did not work. Then one day a cluster accidentally slipped under a steel bar. The bar's pressure cracked open both the cluster and Bainer's problem...
...editors take no sides between Progressive educators (TIME, July 5) and their Essentialist opponents (TIME, Sept. 13), print articles by leaders of both camps. Sample topics: educational goals and incentives, the project method, temper tantrums, audio-visual aids, the elective system, the Chicago Plan, aeronautical education...
Sirs: I must write to someone of my deep personal disapproval of the method behind release at this time of such news as that of atrocities occurring in Philippine prisons. If we American people cannot be trusted to "back our boys with war bonds" without such rank propaganda, we are unworthy of the sacrifices made by the men on Bataan and by men every day in all theaters...
Probably the most versatile, and certainly the most eccentric, of all Macmillan authors was mathematician, clergyman and humorist Charles Lutwidge Dodson, who wrote under the name of Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Lawn Tennis Tournaments: The True Method of Assigning Prizes, with a Proof of the Fallacy of the Present Method; An Elementary Treatise on Determinants and Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraical Geometry, For the Use of Beginners...