Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infallible method of comparative scores, the strong Princeton sextet which will play host to Harvard on Saturday should be little more than an even choice, while Yale is a decided underdog. But a lot depends on the team's power to stay "up" for nine remaining games and that, according to Coach Chase, is a harder thing to achieve in hockey than in any other sport...
...finally president. He has held various Washington jobs, including that of deputy lend-lease administrator. McCabe, like Eccles, is concerned about ways & means to curtail credit. He also believes that great efforts should be made to control inflation. The difference between the two may be largely one of method. Amiable, smiling Tom McCabe gets along with people...
...general method (in practice, enormously difficult) was to determine the intrinsic brightness of objects in a nebula and then gauge its distance (the fainter it is, the farther away). Variable stars called Cepheids, discovered at Harvard, told him that the bright nebula called Messier 31 is 680,000 light-years away. Messier 31 was therefore no mere part of the Milky Way galaxy (the star-congregation in which our sun is a fourth-rate star), but an isolated star-system far out in space and as big as our entire galaxy. Other, longer-ranged measuring sticks carried him farther...
There seemed to be no end to the swarming nebulae. The most distant showed as tiny, dim blobs. By a complex statistical method Hubble proved, after years of work, that these dimmest glimmers were so far away that their light, speeding at 186,000 miles per second, took 500,000,000 years to reach Mount Wilson...
...important thing about Dr. Gollan's experiment: his method, although not startlingly new, proves that a virus can be produced rapidly and cheaply. He took brain tissue from polio-infected mice, chopped it up, put it in an alcohol solution, then precipitated the virus by spinning it in an ordinary laboratory centrifuge. He worked with MM (mouse-monkey) virus, which does not affect human beings; but his method, he believes, can be used to isolate viruses that attack humans. When that is done, researchers can begin work on a vaccine...