Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians are not striking out blindly. There is method in their madness. At the most obvious level they may hope to disrupt the smooth working of the Marshall Plan, which is designed to be a two-sided proposition. For its part, the United States proposes to furnish money and materials. But Europe is supposed to organize itself into an economic entity to make the best use of its resources. Communist inspired strikes and discontent could disrupt reconstruction and cause weariness and dissatisfaction in both the United States and Europe...
...Wonder. Producer of the People's Pool is Philip Ilsley, 51, thrice-married brother of Canada's Minister of Justice and onetime farmer, art dealer, lecturer, florist and real-estate man. He developed the cost-saving construction method while building houses (and pools) for movie stars in 1936 at fashionable Brentwood. Instead of a flatbottomed, straight-sided pool, which needed expensive forms and supports, he used a rounded bottom, based on steel-wire mesh. By using a pneumatic hose to pour the concrete, Ilsley cut construction time to six days...
...Fischer, like many another unblinkered convert, sang the blues of disillusionment. Gandhi and Stalin is the logical outcome of his about-face: a warning of what Stalin is up to and a prescription for stopping him. It is also an awkward plea for Gandhi's "method of nonviolent yet dynamic and direct action which fuses the impatience of revolutionists with the scruples of idealists." Fischer admires Gandhi as uncritically as he once admired Stalin. Like the Mahatma, he "wants to improve the system by improving man." Yet it was Gandhi himself who (a year ago) brushed aside Fischer...
...upon providing a sense of personal student participation in aiding the shipment of food and other supplies to specific parties abroad. For the second phase of its program the Council should seriously consider a plan for stopping general food waste in the dining halls. While this is an impersonal method, the results will fit neatly into the frame of thinking outlined last night in the President's radio appeal...
Extra Energy. Radar waves are electromagnetic waves like light and X rays; but since their frequency is enormously smaller, they carry much less energy per "photon."* They therefore provide what scientists call an "elegant" method of dealing out very small quantities of energy. Using a formidable-looking gadget, Lamb & Retherford shot radar waves of the proper frequency through hydrogen atoms in one of Dirac's predicted states. As soon as the energy was added, the atoms turned into the other state. Since energy was required to make the change, the experiment showed that the two states did not have...