Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There came a problem of school days and book bags. Not a thing in Navy Regs about the method of wearing or carrying --so we're testing our individuality. Worn the same way as the purse--bruises the right shoulder and left hip-but we can swing our arms. Slung over the shoulder--a la sea bag--seems a bit too "salty...
Advocating a new method of banking for post-war finance which would require more risks, J. Franklin Ebersole, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance at the Business School, has written the article "Banks Call Make More Postwar Jobs" for the autumn Harvard Business Review...
...line, although the formation is of the orthodox unbalanced variety, things happen a bit differently from the way they do in the orthodox method of line play. There is almost no straightaway blocking, with the Harlow system of angle blocks and mousetraps doing...
...desks at the same time are two research reports claiming that Sister Kenny's understanding of poliomyelitis is all wrong. No one now denies that Sister Kenny is good with her hands (in Minneapolis, where formerly about 85% of polio sufferers were left with paralysis, the Kenny method now makes all but 20% as good as new), but her critics insist that she does not really know how she does...
Roosters. A new way to produce fatter, tastier cockerels, to make even tough old roosters succulent, had been discovered by Biochemist Frederick W. Lorenz of the University of California. His method: the injection of a synthetic sex hormone. Lorenz had begun by wondering why a hen grows fat when it starts laying eggs. He proved it was because the female sex hormone, estrogen, increases the amount of fat in the blood. Lorenz then hit on the idea of giving estrogen (available in a cheap, synthetic form called diethylstilbestrol) to fatten up male fowl...