Word: method
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fairbank does not see a swift end of the Chinese civil war if the Communists continue their present use of the "cell system." This method, necessarily time consuming, involves infiltration of certain sections by Chinese Communists who work to prepare the population of these areas to receive Communist troops, rather than to help Nationalist troops fight them. "By this means of warfare," Fairbank noted, "it will take another year for the Communists to get to Canton...
...method of checking signatures against other specimens of handwriting on registration forms has not yet been worked...
Wound Down. Guilden junked Waltham's method of selling through jobbers, in favor of direct sales to dealers, which saddled it with heavy new selling costs (and caused disgruntled jobbers to knock Waltham). He also threw out such .sidelines as speedometers, and discontinued cheap watches, to concentrate on expensive timepieces. Furthermore, his plant-like many in New England-was old and inefficient; his workers had had their wages almost tripled in seven years (78% of the cost of a watch is in labor), without a rise in productivity to make...
...another minute on this miserable thing, and I don't care an iota whether I succeed or not." Say this sincerely, and feel it; and go out and play, or go to bed and sleep, and I am sure the results next day will encourage you to use the method permanently...
...dollars per head in Mississippi. Taft figured that he had the biggest bugaboo whipped--federal "dictatorship" in the little red schoolhouse. He said, in debate: "The only function of the federal government would be that of an auditor.... It will have no more to say about the exact method by which education shall be administered...