Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think the State Department is justified in presenting these absolute alternatives. That is a method of propaganda that I don't appreciate...
...examination grade is supposedly an indication of the student's learning. If that indication is derived so indiscriminately as to reward a student who has worked six hours as much or more than one who has worked six weeks, I judge there is to be a fault in the method of deriving it. And I question such transactions as that of the CRIMSON Editor with the Department of History. I merely wish to say that one ought not to revile Mr. Cramer's successes, where with a little reason it will be plain that the failures of the examination system...
...brightest things moving in the world. Raintree County is a historical novel of Indiana by an Indiana boy; it is also a philosophical novel (a rare thing in U.S. fiction), and a studied work of art that is striking enough to court comparison, in method at least, with the Ulysses of James Joyce...
Disapproval of any of the ideas contained in the 40-point proposal will not kill the statement in toto, since the point-by-point method of voting was designed particularly to retain or amend satisfactory parts and reject those not agreed upon by a majority...
...Truman is, therefore, on the side of "right" against "evil." In a vague way he favors doing good. But he has not proposed a specific program for promoting any of these goals. His method is in sharp contrast to that of his predecessor who made recommendations to Congress at the same time that he had one of his party members in Congress introduce a bill embodying his suggestions...