Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every reasonably safe and sure method of contraception so far devised has required that either partner take preventive measures before intercourse. Last week two Yale University researchers reported the discovery of a "morning-after" pill that can prevent pregnancy when taken as long as six days afterward...
Under the proposed plan, as in the system in effect through last year, a Master would know the names of everyone who had applied for his House. He would then be able to select a limited number of applicants--not necessarily as many as under the old method...
...Supreme Court raised that profound issue by hurling a constitutional thunderbolt at the most basic U.S. police method of solving crimes: questioning suspects and extracting confessions. For decades, that system has thrived on the fact that most people are not aware of their constitutional right to silence. By holding that suspects may need lawyers to protect that right not merely in court but in the police station, the court's decision in Escobedo v. Illinois posed a cop's nightmare-no more confessions...
...main object of both plans is to provide for freshmen informal contacts with upperclassmen in order to gain the sorts of academic and personal advice they cannot get under the present counseling method. By promoting this kind of contact and creating a new rapport the HUC's proposed plan could supplement the current proctor system...
Although the Massachusetts Sales Tax has been in operation for nearly one month, state authorities have still failed to discover an adequate method of exempting required textbooks from the tax. The existing system of mimeographed forms signed by students and counter-signed by instructors is absurdly awkward. The forms insure that only "required" textbooks are exempted from the tax. The cost of processing those mounds of paper will surely exceed the revenues which the state would lose without this control. And one can only shudder at the thought of the confusion which will take place at every cash-register...