Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plans to turn his attention to cold-blooded fossil animals, whose temperatures, unlike those of warmblooded creatures, varied with climatic changes. By using his collagen method to take their body temperatures, he believes, he can determine the approximate temperature of the prehistoric climate in which they lived...
Died. Paul Muni, 71, virtuoso of biographical roles; of a heart attack; in Montecito, Calif. "Method? Formula? Highfalutin words," Muni once scoffed. Trained on New York's Yiddish stage, he submerged himself in each new movie role until the actor disappeared, taking days to perfect his makeup, spending weeks learning every nuance of the characters he portrayed-an arrogant gangster in Scarf ace (1932), a fierce patriot in Juarez (1939), a dedicated scientist in The Story of Louis Pasteur, which won him a 1936 Oscar. His Hollywood appeal faded in the 1940s, but he made a triumphant return...
Last week a team at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research reported that it has succeeded in doing this in mice and rabbits, and is ready to try to extend the method to man. Chief of the investigators is Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, already famed for his work in developing a mumps vaccine (TIME, July 1, 1966) and Enders measles vaccine. The first of his group's reports appeared under the prestige imprint of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
...song turns more dreamlike, ushering forth a complex metaphor to rank with Dylan's best. "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire/ And though the holes were rather small/ They had to count them all..."--this refers to Scotland Yard's search for bodies buried in a moor. The method they used was to sink poles in the earth and sniff the ends for the odor of decomposing flesh. "Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall," the song continues. I.E., now they know that an audience, like the audience on the record, is so many...
...quest for knowledge in the higher education of Vietnam is hampered by conditions that originate in war, underdevelopment and custom. There are few resources for research or for teacher improvement and few exceptions to the dominant teaching method of lectures which become student's notes and the subjects of annual examinations. As a result there is little breadth to teaching styles and the process, to a great extent, has become predictable, uniform, and for the student unexciting. Accomplishment, for the student, is almost totally in terms of passing examinations; there exist too few opportunities to analyze or compare ideas...