Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This "delayed intellectual adolescence," he found, continues even at the postgraduate level, where a Ph.D. student is so encumbered with courses and quizzes that he has no time for original work at all. "This method," blurted Beloff, "produces more Ph.D.s ... it does not produce more scholars...
...Barker of Doubleday: "I know the story is completely accurate . . . I'm so heartily sick of all the complete foolishness of bestseller lists." But the Times and Tribune were not so pleased. Said Times Sunday Editor Lester Markel: "They made the survey without asking what the Times method is. We think ours ... is as good...
...CRIMSON does not say that the Committee's decision was motivated by prejudice, nor does it say that bad faith was involved. We do contend that the Committee's method of studying whether or not the New Student was a "bona fide Harvard student publication" was influenced by the political nature of the magazine...
...South, double muscadine was a bedspread design, named for the leaf of the scuppernong-wine grape. "Rench" was the word for rinse, and "wropping" was the method of braiding pickaninny pigtails. In Mississippi at least, a perjured slave was subject to "have both your ears nailed to the pillory, and cut off, and receive thirty-nine lashes on your bare back, well laid on, at the common whipping post." Then as now, a cockleburr was regarded as a bad thing to get under a saddle...
...group only got going a short time ago. All of a sudden, it seemed, there were scores of bright young men telling everybody to hurry up and produce a world government before it was too late. Early world federalism smacked of wild-eyed student debaters fussing over the Culbertson method. And, in the beginning, at least, there were so many world government groups that the average citizen was slightly confused...