Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Extension uses only the lecture method of instruction, many lecturers thought lectures worked better with adults, at least in the Extension "There is more freedom to teach and learn," one professor said. "You don't feel so much that your colleagues or department chairman are constantly watching, and you are also talking to people closer to your own age. As a result there is more informality and intimacy...
...darkness. Dr. Decker believes that photosynthesis stops when the light fails, but that the daytime respiration that accompanies photosynthesis does not stop quite so suddenly. "It is like catching the leaf," he says, "with its pants down before it can adjust to darkness." Dr. Decker's method with Rabino-witch's nightmare may have considerable implications. A plant's production of food is the net result of its photosynthesis minus its respiration. Dr. Decker hopes to breed hybrid plants that breathe only slightly in sunlight, permitting photosynthesis to manufacture more food...
Clocker Spanielle, CRIMSON handicapper, backed his choices at Suffolk Downs yesterday with $25 apiece. Result: a net profit of $140. Playing the sure-fire-method, Clocker bet all his horses to show...
...Cochran utilized the only other method of scoring open to the side when he kicked a fine drop goal from a wide angle, and Martin Lindsay ended the scoring on a pass from Rellie...
...futuristic-looking machine uses a simple new method of propulsion: the ducted air fan. Two enclosed counterrotating propellers under the platform (to keep the platform from spinning) suck air down through holes in the circular fuselage, providing downward thrust, thus lifting the plane. All the pilot has to do in steering is lean in the desired direction. Still very much an experiment, the light, easy-to-operate Flying Carpet may serve the armed forces as a courier aircraft, scout and air ambulance...