Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Have American mothers any defense against being included by inference in such public immodesties? Is there any method whereby these females may be restrained from vulgarizing and holding up to ridicule a name so far held as honorable among us? Can they continue to misrepresent the American ladies whose sons and husbands are proud to prepare to defend them, and who are too busy lending their hands to aid and comfort those same dear men to defend themselves against such embarrassing associations, however falsely assumed...
Most successful method of malaria control has been to drain swamps and pour oil on stagnant waters. But on the island of Trinidad, this system does not work. A mosquito of different habits, the Anopheles bellator, was suspected...
...Green is almost a photographed novel, is very nearly a silent picture with occasional dialogue sequences. Director John Ford has chosen the book's method to tell his story: his reminiscing Welshman is an offscreen voice (Rhys Williams) introducing and commenting on the picture's episodes.* For the most part, the actors are silent as befits inarticulate people...
This is at least as simple as the present method of making alumina from bauxite ore, which is by no means pure when mined. Its gross impurities, such as sand, are removed by crushing, washing, sifting. It is then dissolved in hot caustic soda or "lye," which does not dissolve the subtler impurities. When the hot lye cools in towering tanks, pure aluminum hydroxide separates from it and is ready to be baked and electrolyzed...
Mining the Ocean. A year ago magnesium was extracted from only one source, Michigan's brine wells; by only one enterprising producer, Dow Chemical Co.; and by only one method, electrolysis of molten magnesium chloride recovered from salt water. This is a chemical trick so old that it is known as a prior art and is not patentable. Last winter Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold's division of the Department of Justice sued Dow as a monopoly, but the chief reason that Dow had magnesium all to itself was that before the U.S. began rushing warplanes there...