Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson's 89-the Democrats looked hopefully at states where Ike's margin lay within 6% (see map), figured expansively that a shift in all these was possible and would harvest 343 electoral votes-a margin for error of 77 over the needed 266. If this method conjured up doubts, there was another kind of arithmetic, based on the electoral votes of all the states that went heavily for Ike in 1952 but now have active Democratic governors, e.g., Edmund Muskie's Maine, Bob Meyner's New Jersey, Ernest McFarland's Arizona, and even (they...
...Columbia (a CBS subsidiary); 3) wherever possible, the stations plug BMI tunes, ignore ASCAP tunes on the "sinister" premise that (as a BMI pamphlet once put it) "the public selects its favorites from the music which it hears, and does not miss what it does not hear." One method, testified Songwriter Adams, was in the form of memos to radio stations, saying: "This is a BMI number-meaning it is your own music. Be careful of the other side of this disk. It is not a BMI tune...
Among the top ten are three big oilmen and a former lawyer. Also on the list is an Ohio gambler whose method made history. Ranging through football-talented Ohio and Pennsylvania in the 1940s, he spotted prospective stars, would sometimes offer to send them to college. The boys never knew his profession, but the evening before a big game he would put through a friendly call, find out in passing about the team's prospects. Most respected big gambler of all is a former securities analyst who lost his job with a large bank because, among other things...
...Stop has Marilyn Monre, just out of Actors' Studio. She is corpulent and full of method. It's all very curious...
...seminaries Lutheran Rudolf Bultmann is best known as one of the founders of "form criticism," the widely accepted method of analyzing the Bible in terms of the forms-homilies, didactic methods, storytelling devices-used by those who wrote down and compiled the Gospels. But in 1941 Professor Bultmann, then in the chair of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg (he retired five years ago), published a magazine article that since then has grown into continental theology's biggest controversy and coined its fightingest word...