Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is not synonymous with maintaining justice. As an example of keeping the peace at the expense of justice, Taft cited Neville Chamberlain's agreement to give the Sudetenland to Germany. Taft called for the principle of justice under law to be substituted for the U.N.'s method of peacekeeping by expediency...
Arbitrary as such a plan might appear, it remains the best method for attaining a system of Houses individually balanced but still distinctive. Housemasters should quickly stop attempts to reach President Lowell's ideal with halfway measures and drop the preferential system of Houses assignment...
...University of Louisville researchers, Dr. Alex J. Steigman and Dr. Murray Lipton, have developed a color test to indicate whether a child is protected against polio. The method: Hela cells (easily grown cancer cells) are mixed with polio virus, an indicator dye and a blood sample. Incubated at 36° centigrade for a week, the mixture is then examined for color. If the child is fully protected, the mixture will be yellow; if not, red. The new method, say the Louisville doctors, is cheaper ($25) than previous tests, requires less time than tests using monkeys, and will enable many more...
...lexicographer," says he, "needs to have a systematic method. He must be more than a hack. He must be a judge of what is current and accepted." And he must be a scholar...
...wool exports; India and Pakistan followed with stiff quotas on shipments, thus cutting off nearly 30% of the best grade of U.S. wool imports. Prices promptly quadrupled, to as much as $2.30 a lb., and the cost of finished rugs spiraled alarmingly. At the same time a revolutionary new method of rugmaking with material other than wool was tempting housewives away from the traditional favorites...