Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...include climbing fences, enduring long exposure, or chasing little yellow men with a bayonet. This, again, is a concrete suggestion for gearing the colleges efficiently to the victory campaign. Though it may take a different shape finally, it points one way of eliminating the "chaos" existing in the present method of selection--a method which works great hardship on individuals as well as on the general welfare...
...method of revealing the true identity of an artist's work, X-ray shadow-graphs have proved, the Fogg exhibition reveals, that four paintings previously accredited to the artist Gorgione are not his. By imagining how to hold a brush, following the strokes in the shadowgraph print, a student can reproduce the size, shape, speed and direction of the artist's brush-stroke, an excellent means of study...
...implications of these experiments, the old partners, Ogden and Richards set up in 1939 the Committee on Communication in a frame house at 9 Kirkland Place. The Committee, under Dr. Richards, went on studying meaning, while Dr. Ogden led the Orthological Institute in further refinements of the Basic English method. Ingenious charts for associating pictures and simple words were drawn up with the help of enthusiastic American and foreign students, and the group became widely known in a very short time. Maxim Litvinoff and his wife were so impressed by the Basic approach to English that they learned...
Impressed with bicycling's possibilities in a new-earless U.S., OPM promised the industry a limited allocation of steel and rubber. The manufacturers in turn agreed that they could produce 1,000,000 bicycles in 1942 (1941 output: 1,800,000) and save 30,000 tons of steel. Method: make two models (male & female) instead of 35; limit them to 34 lb. (present average: 49 lb.); throw out spotlights, battery tanks, other gadgets...
...five-year study of Newton's Principia. In it he discovered an error. At 19 his brother-in-law gave him a copy of Euclid's Elements; Bowditch later concluded that Euclid was "a second-rate mathematician." To study French mathematicians, he taught himself French. His method was simple. He got a copy of the New Testament and a French dictionary. When he had translated the New Testament into French, he knew French (except its pronunciation...