Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning of Soviet Russia's climb from a plow-horse to a horsepower economy, the Five-Year Plan, or Piatiletka, was a dramatic slogan as well as an effective method of primitive state planning. But when the sixth Piatiletka arrived last year, the word had lost its power for millions of Russian workers, case-hardened by 30 years of ceaseless urging to achieve ever higher production norms. Last week the Soviet leaders indicated that they were ready to drop the old Piatiletki for a more relaxed method of planning and executing the progress of their national economy...
...anything, from the venerable suggestion box to such freewheeling idea-association techniques as "group thinks," "buzz sessions," "imagineering," and the most popular device of all, the "brainstorm." Originator of the brainstorm* is Alex F. Osborn of Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, who defines it as a method in which groups of people "use their brains to storm a creative problem and do so in Commando fashion, with each stormer audaciously attacking the same objective...
Died. Walther Wilhelm Bothe, 66, Prussian-born nuclear physicist who in 1930 produced unexpected radiation by bombarding beryllium with alpha particles, and thus led to the discovery of the neutron, in 1954 won the Nobel Prize for physics for his development and use of the "coincidence method" of measuring time with billionth-of-a-second accuracy; after long illness; in Heidelberg, West Germany...
...disturbing but bearable sort, besides which he is Necessary. He may steal your butts, scratch your records, drink your liquor, date your girl, and rattle your tender nerves; but he is Necessary. When choosing yours, be sure to experiment carefully beforehand. After all is said, the Neanderthal method may prove the surest. Chacun a son gout...
...method of election represents a combination of reliance on University rankings and close individual study by the Society itself. In the selection of the Junior Eight and the Senior Sixteen, the Society obtains from the Registrar's Office a list of the leading students in the class which includes twice as many men as the number of places available. Thus there is a choice of 16 Juniors and 32 Seniors...