Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, U.S. skiers were getting a chance to hear more about it. Emile's new book-How to Ski by the French Method (New Directions; $6)-was just out; and Emile himself had arrived in the U.S. to teach advanced students at Idaho's great ski resort, Sun Valley...
...method is important for three reasons: 1) it saves time and labor for the hypnotist, who can take over where the record leaves off with his subject well in a trance; 2) it enables the psychologist to select good hypnotic subjects from among a group of people, without going through the time consuming preliminaries himself; 3) and it provides a standardized means of studying the effects of hypnotism since all subjects hear the same thing...
Nixon also criticized the Department of Justice: "[It] has been almost frantically trying to find the method of placing the blame for having these documents in his possession on Mr. Chambers. This, of course, is not a debatable question at all. Mr. Chambers admits that he has them in his possession and is prepared to take the consequences whatever the consequences...
...individual instructor has to adopt the historical-critical method of teaching literature him self; the Department cannot prescribe how a professor shall teach. Many of the younger men are following the spirit of the General education recommendation. The older teachers, whose interest lies in either criticism or history, should revise their methods to give the student a fuller picture of literature...
...Social Sciences are midway between natural science and the humanities, and their methods must be both participative and objective," he said. He stated that their method of work is to specify what their procedure will be and to carry through in their studies...