Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garand rifles need no longer be fired to line up the sights for factory tests. A new method of testing the sights, developed in the General Electric laboratories, uses a plug holding a mirror inserted in the barrel to line up images of front and rear sights on a screen. Time, ammunition and manpower are thus saved...
...technique for the selection of officer candidates is described in a monograph recently put out by the Grant Study, a Harvard social research group of seven men. The new method, to supplement others, will save almost an hour and a half per candidate, and some of the tests developed are already being widely used...
Best measure of its range is that the P-38 for months has been flown to combat areas, across the Pacific and both North and South Atlantic. Thus a new method of delivery avoids submarines, delays in ship transit, the need for unloading facilities and assembly stations at war-theater delivery points...
Details to be released early next week include the exact method of registering for new rooms and choice of roommate. Still very uncertain are the exact groups that will live in the barracks and where each will live...
...does not have to go far to find the proper method for handling the problem of admission limitations. The established USO agencies in Boston, which take care of other tickets for service-men, could also issue tickets for specific classes here. In this way, each man could be limited as to the number of classes he might attend and no class would have more visitors than it could easily accomodate in unused seats. Nor would the fact that lectures are pointed at men who have previous knowledge of the context necessarily hamper the success of the plan. Experience with...