Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar, if unpleasant, occurrence to the U.N. But this was the first time a government had gone so far as to pull out its entire delegation and to suggest out loud that it would consider withdrawing from the world organization. U.N. diplomats were stunned by the radical method France had chosen to resist any international meddling in the affairs of the North Africa territory that for more than a century has been administered as a part of metropolitan France...
...public means of mass travel. As a result, U.S. civil air policy, as laid down by the Civil Aeronautics Board, is undergoing a radical change. Once CAB nursed along the fledgling industry by spoon-feeding it Government subsidies and holding back competition. Not only is this method now out-of-date; it does not fit an expanding industry. CAB Chairman Ross Rizley feels that the time has come for additional service, lustier competition and new route awards. The question is: How much new competition...
...Sandpile. Sculptor Nivola's method is simple enough to inspire a whole school of do-it-yourself followers. Trained during his boyhood as a mason and stucco decorator before he won a scholarship at Milan's Art Institute, Nivola was struck one day by the fact that his sand doodles could be cast simply by reversing the patterns and filling them with plaster or concrete. When the first casts came up covered with fine-grained sand Nivola was delighted to discover that they combined the texture of sand with the permanence of stone...
...solve this problem by the extension of an idea that is already being used by Social Sciences 1, 2 and 6. These, three courses, whose contents are more or less similar, have arranged this fall to "trade" section men in order to alleviate overcrowding wherever it is greatest. This method would not work for all lower-level Humanities and Social Sciences courses--some meet chiefly in section and therefore need specialized instructors--but there is no reason why its use cannot be expanded. Social Sciences 4, for example, could probably get in on the section man pool, and Humanities...
Hall said that no one has ever suggested a feasible method of sound-proofing the dormitories economically. A soundproofing paint could be applied to the walls and weather stripping doors added, but most of the noise does not come from the halls and painting would not be very effective in blocking the sound coming through the walls, he stated...