Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...method seems to do the trick because over half the 500 students enrolled in the course this year received honors grades...
...method, devised by the AHA and Paul W. Holland, lecturer on statistics, utilizes a 700 page book of five digit random numbers. A page and column are selected from the book, and the sequence of numbers is matched to an alphabetical list of the candidates. The candidates are listed on the ballot from lowest number to highest...
PRESIDENT BOK is slated to unveil his new dean of the Faculty later this month; there is no reason to believe--given Bok's method of choosing and the trend towards Mass Hall domination of University Hall--that the new man will be much of an improvement over the old model...
...heavy investments are giving the Poles some of the best-equipped shipyards in the world. For example, Polish builders are experimenting with a method of constructing giant cargo ships in two halves and then joining them in the water. The two sections are fitted together with the aid of a horseshoe-shaped tunnel that enables welders to work both inside and outside the hull, producing a stronger seam than is attained by conventional methods. In the past, other Communist nations got most of the benefit of Polish expertise: one out of every two Rumanian fishing ships, and every fourth Albanian...
...fact is that almost no one this side of the anarcho-libertarian right is really opposed to censorship in all forms, and I'm not talking only about Justice Holmes' hoary example of the man who cries "fire" in a crowded theater. The method of liberals proposing to impose censorship seems to be to call it something else, or to call it nothing at all. Their recent successful campaign to ban smoking commercials from television and radio, though never labelled with the ugly word, was a measure of censorship more nearly political than anything I am advocating in this space...