Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method of operation [of the arm]," wrote the doctors, "is somewhat similar to that of a two-horse carriage, where the pull is . . . apportioned and equalized between the two ends of a lever, the whiffletree." Motor power is reduced to about 25% of normal, but this is still enough to enable patients to carry pails of water or pour water from one full pail into an empty one. The articulation is so perfect that the patient can hold and smoke a cigaret with ease...
With Stalingrad gone, said Karpovich, Baku oil could be sent across the Caspian to ports in the Ural region and shipped from there overland by rail. Such a method, of course, would tax Russian rail facilities to the utmost...
...composer of descriptive fox trots that dash along in short, breathless musical phrases, Scott is working to broaden his style before his public types him for keeps, Scott never writes a note of music from one year's end to the next: he dictates his compositions. This method, he admits, is prompted partly by laziness, partly by the fact that "if you have an audience around, it's very pleasant to compose...
...Junk, old tools and scrap dropped down the hole is an oldfashioned, strictly improvised method. Fishing out broken equipment is one of the mudcats' arts-a timetaker, but not too difficult...
...last week decided to get down to brass tacks on the food price situation, promised hard-squeezed food wholesalers and retailers that "an alternative pricing method will be given [them], probably by mid-September...