Word: methodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practically all the coaches at the meeting voiced their disapproval of the present method of officiating and urged some change. Coach E. A. Wachter, University mentor, stated that the referees were not uniform in their rulings and that many were over-technical. Only Oswald Tower, of Andover, head of the joint rules committee, defended the referees saying that a great deal of the strictness in a game depended on the playing and not so much on the officiating...
...present time, there does not seem to be any method for determining from preliminary test whether a cable will stand up in service or not. In other words, the cable is the weakest link in the modern power system. Moreover, cables have not been designed to operate on voltages commensurate with those employed for overhead lines...
...legislative history contains some 120 measures similarly buried away under pocket vetoes since President' Madison, in 1812, first devised this oblique method of shelving legislation during the life of a Congress. A most recent and notable pocket veto was President Coolidge's disposal of the bill for Government operation of the Muscle Shoals plant (TIME, June 11). Other pocketed bills which would become law if the Okonogan Indians should win their case include a prohibition against the useless slaughter of buffalo (1874) and the acceleration of the Missouri-California mails from 38 to 30 days...
...illustrious body of jurists to deal with an important aspect of the administration of justice. The purpose of Professor Sayre and his colleagues, an attack on specific problems relative to fitting the punishment to the criminal and not to the crime, appears to the layman as a sound method for dealing with criminal cases. What the Institute is able to report from its studies will be eagerly awaited by those interested in the advancement of social justice...
...American mind, trained in Hoover individualism, as clerical support is a public system that might be scented with State Socialism. Beside private philanthropy, there is no other means in this country for the man born with the ivory tower mind but without the ivory tower; and a sane method of guiding such philanthropy is extremely important...