Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wreck site ten feet below him had been carefully staked out to test a new method of underwater mapping, photogrammetry. A series of photos was taken of the area, using carefully positioned stakes as reference points. The pictures were then placed together to form a composite...
Both advocates and opponents of the new system agree that the old method of assigning freshmen hurt certain Houses severely. Freshmen indicated their first, second, and third choices on their House applications, and each Master chose a percentage of those who had ranked his House first. But freshmen regarded a low number of choices for a House as de facto evidence that there was something wrong with it. A vicious circle was created; a House would receive few applications one year for no other reason except that it had received few the year before. Masters of undersubscribed Houses...
...concluded by saying that he and other members of the Castillian Foundation at Milbrook, N.Y. smoke marijuana as a method of scientific research in a study of its effects...
...Meantime, the Germans insist that they cannot afford to pay the EEC treasury big farm subsidies, which will chiefly enrich French farmers, unless their industries can profit from Kennedy Round tariff reductions. Moreover, all Six, plus Britain and Switzerland, insist that the U.S. must scrap its present method of setting certain import duties before the Kennedy Round resumes...
...that once flowed directly into the river. This ended the major source of pollution. But these same local sewers also carried storm water and during heavy storms the interceptors were made to overflow into the Charles, to avoid their backing up and clogging local systems. Essentially, this was the method used until this year...