Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council, meeting last night, abolished the present method of selecting executives for the Senior year-book, and clarified the details of the Redbook-Album merger...
...justify all his actions of the past 30 years in terms most Germans can understand and applaud. For a good end he stooped to low means. He shucked dignity, closed his eyes to principles, was alternately sycophant, stout leader, wheedling trimmer and belligerent hell-roarer. The method worked. Few years ago his Navy was "the ugly little stepchild of the Government." Today the stepchild is a favorite, Germans can look on its face and find it shining and full of promise...
...journalistic ancients are trying a rejuvenation method which, before war's end, many a newspaper may try. The method is also calculated to cut costs-but both of them claim that cost-cutting is not their object. Last week the New York Post, oldest in Manhattan (founded 1801), turned tabloid. And Denver's Rocky Mountain News announced that it would make the same change this week...
...skillful surgeon, Dr. DeLee developed the modern, low Caesarean operation. He also campaigned for prophylactic forceps delivery, a method of sparing the mother by using forceps early in a predictable, prolonged labor...
...less devious method, of course, would be to repeal the 1934 Silver Purchase Act and let silver's price find its commercial level-perhaps as low as 15? an ounce. Mining State Senators last week were preparing a last-ditch defense of their 71? racket. As though to prove they had lost none of their nerve, they even demanded priorities on mining equipment to meet the new war-industry demand for silver-at twice the already artificial market price. Hard-hitting American Metal Market (trade organ) found a word for it in O. Henry: "The legitimate ethics of pure...