Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval Unit's experiments, mice inhaled a fine spray of specially treated horse serum and then received large doses of mouse-influenza organisms in their noses. The mice proved immune to influenza and stayed that way about six days. The doctors think that the Russian method is successful because it puts influenza antibodies (blood elements which fight the disease) where they are needed...
Chief exponent of this theory is an Ohio experimental farmer named Edward H. Faulkner. He believes that plowing is responsible for erosion and most other ills of the U.S. soil. He tested his theory by using a cultivation method of his own: instead of plowing he disk-harrowed the soil and planted his crops in the chopped-up surface stubble, weeds and debris. His harvest was astonishing. Many a farmer who reads his newly published report (Plowman's Folly; University of Oklahoma Press; $2) may be tempted never to plow, again...
Fruitful Trash. Faulkner rented a farm and conducted a serious test. He grew a thick cover crop of rye, harrowed it in, planted in a surface that looked more like a trash pile than soil. He used no commercial fertilizer, no insecticides. He shocked neighboring farmers by his unorthodox method of planting tomatoes: he simply laid each plant on top of the packed soil and threw a little dirt on its roots. Within 24 hours every plant stood up straight. The source of this idea was an old textbook picture of a seedbed. Faulkner noticed that while the seedbed...
Bearded Soil. Farmer Faulkner is sure, on the basis of these results, that abandonment of the moldboard plow would result in immensely richer crops-without artificial fertilizer, lime, insecticides or even cultivating. His method, says he, would ultimately conquer insects (because bugs would find the crops less tasty) and weeds (because they would be killed off as they came up; weed seeds would not be buried and stored for future trouble, as they are by the plow). To the anticipated objection by most farmers that Faulkner's "bearded" soil would be harder to handle than clean plowed land, Faulkner...
There is nothing to indicate that the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts is contemplating the quiz program method of teaching disbursing. But if such a step is ever considered the School now has a least the nucleus of an SOA "Quiz-Kid" gang. In one particular Junior class-and probably to a lesser extent in the other four-there is a group of officer who can ask the most ingenious questions. It sometimes looks as though they know the answers and are just trying in find out if the instructor does or not. He generally refuses to be baited...