Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War I, the only large-scale commercial method of producing toluene was from by-product coke ovens, which were then a bright new technological improvement over beehive ovens. Germany's Heinrich Koppers, at the instigation of U.S. Steel, had begun revolutionizing U.S. coke production with his ovens in the early 1900s. War and the Alien Property Custodian dumped his properties into U.S. hands (chiefly the Mellons') and also accounted for the growth of Koppers Co., which by war's end was putting a new U.S. coke oven into operation every 60 days, a new U.S. toluene...
...this method they united 26 nations against Germany.* Now realize how immensely this must have strengthened the morale of every single Britisher. He must have felt: 'Can we be wrong, if 26 are with us . . .?' Whereas in our country (i.e., Germany) the man in the street asked himself: 'Can we be right, if 26 are against us? . . .' "It is absolutely necessary, especially for a people like the Germans, to show them one single enemy and to march against one single enemy only...
...engineers were slow in adopting induction heating since its invention in 1916. The inventor was the late Dr. Edwin Fitch Northrup, who was exploring for any method of electrical heating which scientists might have overlooked. Early induction furnaces used low power with frequencies of 20,000 to 80,000 cycles. This limited them to laboratory and small-scale work until development in the '20s of generators capable of producing strong currents of 1,000 to 12,000 cycles-good enough for most industrial purposes...
...Feet sweat in any weather. Best way to keep them warm is an Arctic sock one-half inch thick, which requires a shoe two sizes larger than usual. If feet get frozen, they should not be rubbed with snow, since frozen tissues are likely to crack and break. Best method of thawing frozen flesh is to warm it gradually without bending or chafing...
...peace "because people won't take the trouble to walk up the hill." In the fall the whole Edmonds family moves to Cambridge, Mass., where they live in one of the reclusive streets around Harvard. There in his first-floor study Edmonds works according to an erratic method all his own. He never knows when he begins a novel how it is going to end. He never takes notes on his research. Having a very poor memory, he often has to do research over & over. He never makes carbon copies of his novels. "Something terrible is going to happen...