Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month Glenn E. Stolz of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. announced an effective method of providing quick, localized heating by using a broadcasting set of enormous power that directs its energy at the surface of the sheet just where it is needed, melts the tin coating without affecting the steel base, and without any physical contact between the strip and the furnace...
...Army Institute is designed to avoid that danger by establishing a uniform method of teaching and testing soldiers and sailors...
After four months in the service, an enlisted man will be able to register for any of some 150 high-school subjects and 350 college subjects. The courses will be given by the correspondence method, with about ten lessons in each course. When he has satisfactorily completed a subject, the soldier-student will be granted a "certificate of proficiency...
...Ahead lies the overwhelming task of invading the continent of Europe. We still must take Tunis and Bizerte to make our African venture reap the profits for which it was designed. Japanese island forts like Truk must be cleaned out, all we have lost must be regained, and a method of defeating the Nipponese must be devised. The Russians and Chinese must benefit from a flow of supplies from the American cornucopia. In the nation, "black markets," devastating crimps in production, and on a more lasting scale the uisheartening defeats of democracy like the recent Southern filibuster over the poll...
...professors like this, because it makes teaching easier. But as a result, when students are in business, they tend to be hypercritical and rarely constructive. Professor Franklin E. Folts, head of the Production Organization and Engineering Department, summarized the evolution of the case system when he compared the case method to a "completely dynamic, always improving" business. "It may eventually lead to visualization and pictorial dramatization," he concluded. The case method because it helps companies, ivory tower and the office, is growing in all directions. Along with the introduction of movies into the class rooms, the increased...