Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, the National Restaurant and National Coffee Associations announced plans to spend upwards of $10,000 to find a sure-fire method for making a good cup of coffee...
...that it will take more than a million cattle deaths to stamp out the disease. They argue until a man's head aches that campesinos are not being paid enough for their losses, that most of the sick cattle get well by themselves, that the 'European' method of inoculating the cattle is better than the 'American' method of shooting them, that farmers should resist the 'sanitary rifles' of the troops. Now who, Juan asks, is right...
Then David R. Hardman, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, spoke for the Government: "I believe it to be a method of keeping discipline which is completely out of date. . . . It is bad for the child and it is very bad for the adult who administers it. [But] there is also the Ministry point of view.. In saying that I do not imply that officials are sadists, eager to continue the use of caning and flogging. I merely say that, as a Ministry, it is important to move with public opinion. We do not advocate...
...learning was a serious weakness in the present system. However, the suggested plan remains lost in the voluminous report, since next year's nearly doubled schedule of experimental courses makes no provision for even one trial course to ease the later transition from English A into the more diffused method of teaching composition...
...book, though physically small, is no light reading for summer afternoons. It is mostly a series of lectures (delivered at Yale) on teaching science to undergraduates who do not intend to become professional scientists. Dr. Conant's idea: illustrate the "scientific method" by citing historical cases in which science has solved tough problems. Science, he believes, cannot be a mere bulk of static knowledge, however large: "Almost by definition, science moves ahead...