Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cellini's first hint that he had found something important was the presence of a few spots of wax where the 13th century canvas had deteriorated. To him the spots spelled encaustic, a method of painting with pigments mixed in hot wax, which was common among the ancients. Cellini dissolved the glue between the canvas and the panel on which it was mounted. Slowly, with utmost caution, he peeled back the canvas, preserving it in the process. On the panel underneath was an encaustic painting which churchmen of the Middle Ages had apparently thought too old-fashioned to keep...
Under last year's system, which permitted each House to take no more than 70 percent of its first choice applicants, 65 percent of the Class of 1957 were admitted to the House of their first choice, while 90 percent went to one of their top three choices. This method, however, worked well only for the two or three most popular Houses, and brought about a distribution criticized as inequitable by residents in unpopular Houses...
...Council also advised continuing equal disciplinary measures for graduate and undergraduate parking offenders, and the maintenance of the first-come, first-served method of assigning University parking space...
Died. Hannes Schneider, 64, Austrian-born, internationally famed skimeister regarded as "the father of modern skiing" for his development of the "Arlberg Method" of crouching and swinging instead of standing erect on the downhill run; of a heart ailment; in North Conway, N.H. Schneider taught kings, princes and American millionaires at his ski school at St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria, came to North Conway to found a school in 1939 after a brief imprisonment by the Nazis...
...China's biggest projects, e.g., the taming of the Hwai River, with a resulting emphasis on hand labor rather than new machines. Concludes the M.I.T. survey: "It is a sad day for the 'bourgeois scientists,' who must sit inactively watching the wastefulness of the Communist method of organizing masses to perform unskilled tasks...