Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nonviolence. Gandhi insisted that a method of nonviolence [against Japan] could not only be effective but was the only course open to him. Said he: "We have no army, no military resources, no military skill, and nonviolence is the only thing we can rely on. Of course we can't prevent invasion: the Japs will land, but they will land on an inhospitable shore. We do not need to kill a single Jap; we simply give them no quarter. We may be unable to withstand their terror and may have to go through a course of subjection worse than...
...chief executive and right-hand man. Felix worked with the famous "six companies" group that built Boulder Dam. Moritz, now dead, supervised most of the work on Russia's Five-Year Plan. The young Julius, later an executive with Republic Steel, invented a new and more precisely calculable method of reinforcing concrete which eventually made Albert Kahn the outstanding U.S. authority on concrete construction...
Summer changes have been added to the second method, formerly calling for students to pass with a final grade of C or higher one of the following courses: French B, C, D, E, F, German B, C, D, E, F, or any higher course in these languages...
...otherwise, and the schism stands in spite of all the transformations. In his studies, the new Harvard man nearly always finds his greatest difficulty not in a newly uncovered ignorance, but in simple fear. There is no blinking the fact that instruction by lecture is a terrifying method when you're not inured to it, and it is equally useless to deny that course work can be harrowing, especially in a jazzed-up Summer Session. Luckily, however, the instructors in Freshman courses realize that fact and will have intelligence enough to allow for it. Just remember that if the stuff...
...Quickest, simplest, safest method of amputation on the battlefield, said Colonel Norman Thomas Kirk of the U.S. Army, is the circular or "flapless guillotine" operation. "The word 'guillotine,'" said Colonel Kirk, "is a misnomer. The circular guillotine amputation is not a 'chop' operation." It consists of cutting around the skin of the limb, waiting a moment for it to draw back, then cutting around the connective tissue, waiting again for withdrawal, cutting through the muscles circularly, and finally sawing the bone. The old practice of covering the bone with flaps of skin has been abandoned...