Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novel, a biography or some other book every second or third year, written with competence, measured skepticism and social sympathies. Duffus' latest book, The Innocents at Cedro: A Memoir of Thorstein Veblen and Some Others, suggests that he got a great deal of his color, flavor and method during a year (1907-08) spent as an adolescent dishwasher and caretaker in the household of Professor Thorstein Ve blen at Cedro Cottage near the Leland Stanford campus...
Scuttlebutt is a form of verbal holiday with which many military establishments are afflicted. It is in all cases transmitted by the "O" (for oral) method, and is usually bruited about with a most exhilirating abandon...
Since Mike Scat could always be sure of the garbage contract (this year worth $522,000), he never bothered to modernize his equipment. He still uses horse-drawn wagons, a slow method which, even in normal times, permitted him to make no more than two collections a week. It also called for more manpower, therefore more jobs for his loyal Fifth Warders. But last month the manpower shortage finally caught up with Mike Scat...
Under the statutory standard (the Natural Gas Act of 1938) of 'just and reasonable' it is the result reached, not the method employed, which is controlling. ... It is not the theory but the impact of the rate order which counts." To this, Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson dissented at length. He argued, in effect, that the "prudent investment" v. "reproduction cost new" utility debate did not even apply to the natural gas case at hand, and, with the concurrence of Justices Frankfurter and Reed, he retorted: "The Court sustains this [FPC] order as reasonable, but what makes...
...size of the problem and its complexity suggests that no one method will suffice. Probably all will be tried, out of political if not economic necessity. The economic peace that follows an economic revolution of such magnitude as this war -a revolution which in 1943 set a standard for U.S. production at no less than twice the former level-does not present a problem with any easy solution...