Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dame Myra Hess, Duo-Pianists Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, Manhattan's Ray Lev are among Uncle Tobs's famed virtuosos. To plain people, the chief point of the elaborately philosophical Matthay principle (Matthayites hate the word method) is: no dry, mechanical finger drilling. Matthay-trained teachers are still a distinct minority among the 100,000 piano-marms of the U.S., but Matthay-like ideas are moving in. About one-third of the nation's 1,500,000 piano students are no longer subjected to those scramble-noted exercises composed by implacable Karl Czerny, who is widely...
...Commission employs another method of officer training. Aboard many a U.S. merchantman the Commission places cadets, who work on deck or below, study betimes at a Commission school ashore, wind up, if everything goes right, as third mates or third assistant engineers. Formerly required to spend three years at sea, one year at school, cadets, who earn $65 and upwards a month, now get through their training in 22 months. Expected output of cadets from now on: 1 ,000 annually...
...that he had no authority to take him through an auto plant to count the convertible machines. His new proposal was that when G.M., Ford and Chrysler got big orders for identical 30-ton tanks, the three should pool their facilities and subcontract to each other. This is a method of simplifying production which many industries (under the name of the Lyttleton plan) have been forced to in Britain. But the year closed before anyone knew whether Pearl Harbor was the U.S.'s Dunkirk...
...fundamental improvement in the unique power of plants to manufacture food out of carbon dioxide and water in the presence of light. Selective breeding, long practised to increase the yield of plants, may eventually be looked back on as little better than superficial when compared with a new method described last week by Cornell's Botanist Lewis Knudson. Using X-rays, Knudson has permanently increased the size of plants' cnloroplasts-the cell's tiny granular bodies where chlorophyll makes sugar and starch out of inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis-most important chemical reaction...
Botanist Knudson suspects that the bigger its chloroplasts, the bigger is a plant's power to synthesize food for its own growth-and for the nourishment of man and beast. So Knudson's colleagues are eagerly planning to adapt his method to develop more productive strains of corn, wheat, clover, other crops...