Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from bringing the two student bodies together, in all but introductory courses, the new curricular policy, as far as is now known, will affect only the method of selecting subjects and teachers for Radcliffe classes...
...first tried out on wax models of a human thigh. Afterward, when a surgeon used it to find a needle in a fat woman's shoulder, the tiny object, usually a surgeon's bugbear, was snagged in 47 seconds. Dr. Cole wishes the Army would give the method a trial, thinks it would be able to detect bullets or shell shards more quickly, cut down probing and cutting...
...citizen rents a locker at $7-$20 a year, buys meat, vegetables and fruit at wholesale prices, stores it away, eats it months or even years later. For safe preservation, most locker plants use the "sharp-freeze" method, whereby food is flash-frozen at minus 20-30° F., wrapped in special paper, stored away in the lockers at zero. Modern food banks are really small local packing plants. For the farmer some food banks will slaughter, chill, cut, smoke or freeze, and package. For the urbanite they buy whole sides of beef from the meat wholesaler...
...confuse the enemy, to force him to look every way at once; above all, to get around to his rear and make him believe himself hopelessly surrounded - this was the Japanese method. In the endless green of the forest a few cyclists, a handful of snipers and a liberal use of firecrackers could force exhausted British troops to expend the strength they needed against the far more deadly, incessant attack from...
Harvard College once had 37000 students; now it has about 2000. They entered, in the old days, with four years of study and gaiety ahead of them; now few expect to pass their Freshman year. And if the method of entrance into Father's bond business was ever the most serious problem of the future, it's been replaced. Right now, the problem every Crimson wearer is thinking of and bulling about is where he'll be in a few months, what branch of the service he'll be in, and "when...