Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...within reach of peasant girls and boys who, without being enthusiastic about Kadar, say they are now "almost as well off as they were under the rule of the Esterhazys." Among white-collar workers there is widespread unemployment. Piecework, introduced into the factories, is being used as a method of selective coercion to break what is left of the Workers' Councils...
...awaiting the birth of her first child. Counseling and assisting the patient was Dr. Grantly Dick Read, famed pioneer advocate of the "natural-childbirth" technique, which seeks to reduce the mother's dependence on drugs through relaxation and elimination of fear. As in many births by the natural method, the prospective father was on hand, comforting and reassuring his wife-and, in this case, operating a tape recorder to pick up every bedside sound. From twelve hours of tape recorded during labor, Westminster Records last week released a 53-minute Long Playing disk (Natural Childbirth; $3.98), reproducing in sound...
...will be computed by the same method used to arrive at Standard & Poor's pres ent daily and weekly indexes (the daily will be discontinued), e.g., the market value of a company's stock is multiplied by the number of shares outstanding, to get the issue's current value, then compared to a total market value in a base year...
...John Friend Mahoney. 67, longtime (1929-49) U.S. Public Health Service careerman, who developed the penicillin cure for venereal diseases early in World War II. won the American Public Health Association's Lasker Award for the work in 1946, in 1949 announced the complete success of his method, six years after he first used it to treat patients; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City...
...revamp that center would require vacating many classrooms during the period of construction. Dean Sert is called upon to perform a minor miracle. The only encouraging aspect to his job is that it is the first time Harvard has even seen fit to employ a moderately scientific method of development. We hope it is not too late...