Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boxing is a sport of skill participated in for the fun and satisfaction derived. There are many boys who have need of a direct method of dissipating their aggressions and boxing provides that opportunity...
...Salute to Eisenhower" dinner in Washington last month, the President of the U.S. wondered publicly whether he should run for a second term, and indicated that he yearned for counsel. Said he: "I could devoutly wish that there were some method by which the American people could, under the circumstances, point out the path of my true duty. But it appears that this is a question that first I alone must answer." Undeterred by the "but," Pollster George Gallup saw his own duty, and set out to satisfy the President's yearning...
...must be rabbinically supervised and conducted according to a set ritual pattern that stresses humaneness. The animal's throat must be cut, says Israel's Chief Rabbi Herzog, "with a single swift and uninterrupted sweep of the knife . . . The knife must be minutely examined by a specific method before killing . . . twelve times by the nail and by the flesh of the finger ... It must also be examined after the killing, and if any unevenness, roughness or the minutest indentation is found, the beast is regarded as having been improperly slaughtered, and its flesh . . . may not be consumed...
...need for a more efficient method of scheduling classes becomes apparent in considering the problem of concentrators whose fields hold general examinations in the Junior year. Desiring to take as many courses as possible in his field before the examination, a student of the Renaissance is dismayed to discover that courses in Renaissance art, history, and literature are all offered at the same time. At present, there is no central organization set up to prevent conflicts among courses dealing with one period or one country. As a result, course conflicts are not often perceived until the publication of the year...
...neutral in the debate. It says that if it had Regulation W type powers, it would have clamped them on last summer when consumer installment credit was jumping at the rate of $400 million to $500 million monthly. But without direct controls, it had to rely on an indirect method: it hiked the rediscount rate. As a result, the net increase in consumer installment credit dropped to $291 million in October. It rose again seasonally because of heavy Christmas buying to $345 million in November and $438 million in December. Since it takes several months for indirect controls to take...