Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found in the urine of a pregnant woman. A concentrate of a urine specimen is injected into a test animal (frog, rabbit, mouse); if present, the hormone will cause a recognizable reaction in the sex glands. If there is no reaction, the patient is presumed not pregnant. But no method is foolproof-frogs injected only with distilled water have developed reactions. Some tests (e.g., the Friedman test using rabbits, the Aschheim-Zondek test with mice) are highly accurate, but require 48 to 98 hours for definite results...
Last week, two Yale medical school gynecologists, John McL. Morris and Edward H. Hon, reported that they have developed a faster, economical test for which they claim virtually 100% accuracy. Their method follows the same principle as other tests, but with some significant differences: 1) they have developed a simplified technique of getting a stronger, faster-acting hormone preparation by using a chemical called kaolinalumina, which concentrates it from the urine; 2) they use a species of toad (Bufo americanus) as the test animal, because it is cheaper than other animals used and reacts quickly. Performed as early...
General student problems come to the attention of the Administration through an informal fall seminar in which tutors, advisors, and instructors in the General Education program discuss the complexities of advising. Using the method of case discussions, Perry tries to make the twenty or thirty Faculty members in the course "more perceptive and more aware of the related circumstances in a student's concern...
Much more serious than the practice of "canned answers" was the tutoring school habit of attempting to gain advance information about examinations. In one method, a member of the tutoring group would go to the examination, while all the others gathered with a tutor nearby. After glancing over the questions for a few minutes, their confederate inside would stroll nonchalantly out of the room for a smoke and then sprint for the rendez-vous, exam in hand. An experienced tutor could easily analyze an examination in a few minutes and deliver a quick lecture on the best answers. The tutorial...
...appraising this new situation with philosophic calm. They recognize that the development is a legitimate extension of the publication of news conference transcripts, which has been the practice for a long time. And they also accept the fact that the value of these meetings for party propaganda, by any method of public communication, is a legitimate advantage of White House incumbency. But the Democrats, particularly those of the National Committee, are equally aware of the hazards of the new medium to the President and to his party. Eisenhower's predecessors on occasion have failed to avoid the pitfalls...