Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is only one method of boosting the lagging WAC recruiting. . . . That is to get the greatest force in this country, the U.S. Army and all its soldiers, to go all out in a gigantic recruiting campaign...
...treating such cases - the old, "suppressive," "forget-it" treatment of World War I, and the newer "catharsis" in which, by means of persuasion with or without drugs, the despairing soldier is made to spit it out. Still most common, because it takes less time, is the old-fashioned method. The anxious soldier is given rest, sedatives, food and psychiatric pep talks. These are usually given so that all the ward may hear - only the most personal part of the discussion is sotto voce. The question is asked repeatedly: "You want to go back and try again...
...long treatment, Colonel Grinker is convinced, is the best in the long run. But, says he: "We do not have enough psychiatrists." Fortunately, Army doctors who are not psychiatrists are becoming converted to the method and are demanding training; "they have seen how little value there is in diagnostic labeling, persuasion, suggestion and authoritative forcing...
...week, on "Philosophies in Practice.") Concluding that he could say nothing absolute about the nature of truth, but that he might be interesting on the subject of what men have thought it to be, he has just finished a history of philosophy for Simon & Schuster. A believer in scientific method as the most promising approach to truth, he is now writing a book (he thinks it is about his 30th) to prove his never-ending case. He is living in Princeton, N.J., in the cozy, old-fashioned Peacock Inn, with his good-looking young Countess (his third wife) and their...
...molecules from liquids or solids. Evaporation may be speeded by 1) heating, which makes molecules move faster (as in boiling water), or 2) reducing air pressure. Heating, however, may change the chemical make-up of a substance (e.g., heated food often loses vitamins, heated magnesium oxidizes). Industrially, the ideal method would be to evaporate a substance while it is frozen or relatively inactive...