Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last, announced the persistent U.S. Department of Agriculture last week, there is a quick, sure method of hybridizing bees...
...that game!! Mama bought all those slick get-ups for me, the purple dress with matching glasses; that chartreuse number guaranteed to make sober men think they've had enough; that low-out orange one whose method of support is still uncertain . . . One thing bothers me; I didn't tell mama that these cocktail conglomerations are in men's ROOMS. I'm not sure that I understand THAT. I've boned up on Emily Post; but she doesn't mention such places...
Reading "has the virtue of being one of the few entirely disinterested occupations ... being a method of further implementing the art of living by enriching the mind, sharpening the wits, and refining the senses. The end of reading is not more books but more life...
...explode, but gently, in slow motion. How they solved the problem has not been fully explained. Uranium piles are kept from reacting too fast by inserting cadmium rods into the graphite. The rods absorb neutrons and check the action. The more cadmium, the slower the pile percolates. Some similar method may be controlling the tame plutonium...
...instruments he can measure the waves, and tell what direction they come from. His next step will be a larger triangle flanked by other instruments hundreds of miles from St. Louis. This attempt to match the atmospheric vibrations to changes in the weather may produce a new and valuable method of weather forecasting (the Navy has bet its $25,000 on the possibility that it will). Father Macelwane, though hopeful, is as cautious about his work as any other scientist: "We don't know what the vibrations are or what causes them. We just know they are present...