Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet authorities of "standing on their lies behind a fortress of newsprint." He declared that "world public opinion has thus far kept them from killing the author of Gulag or even from imprisoning him. That would indeed be a confirmation of the book. But there remains the time-honored method of slander and personal vilification that is now being vigorously pursued...
...Locust last August, he asked for and got an unusual clause in his contract: paternity leave. It seems that Actress Francine Racette, 27, with whom he had been living for two years, was expecting. To prepare for the baby's birth, the couple studied the Bradley method, a natural-birth technique in which the father helps deliver the child. Last week, when Francine's labor began, he took her to West Park Hospital in Los Angeles County and provided last-minute coaching before assisting into the world their...
...administration moved this week to ferret out the 125 undergraduates. F. Skiddy von Stade '38, dean of freshmen, asked his charges to volunteer to live in freshman dormitories, "so that as few of you present freshmen as possible will have to be assigned to the Yard by some impersonal method...
Harvard's brief argues that giving favorable weight to minority origin in selecting qualified students for admission is "an important method in reducing the disadvantages suffered by minorities in educational opportunity and professional services," and that it improves the educational opportunities of all students...
...conservatives have long been disturbed by liberal trends at Concordia, which has allowed its professors to inter pret Scripture by the historical-critical method. Using that system, scholars consider the Scriptures in their historical and literary settings, which may suggest that some accounts are myth, others metaphor. Tietjen has forthrightly de fended his faculty against attacks, arguing that God's word was never meant to be judged so factually. Last summer Preus was re-elected overwhelmingly at the Synod convention in New Orleans...