Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buttrick said that it is impossible to know life's goal while constantly hurrying, and pointed out that Christ had none of our excessive speed. "We have the appearance of people pursued," said Buttrick. "This is strange, for our human wisdom, even on the secular level, endorses God's method of slowness...
...prizes that has dangled just out of reach of the scientists is a method of amplifying light: i.e., increasing the brilliance of a dim "picture." It can be done in the innards of electron tubes, but only in ways that are unsatisfactory. The ideal is a system that will brighten an optical image-with all its lights and shadows-just as sound is strengthened by a public-address apparatus...
Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, said that he had once believed education in schools and churches-to be the best way of combating race prejudice. "I have changed my opinion, however, and now feel that legislative decisions forbidding segregation are a faster and more effective method than trying to educate and convince each individual in a state that segregation is wrong," he said...
...Fund Drive Committee attributes this response to their new method of conducting the campaign. This year, personal pleas to give replaced writes pledges, and a concentrated two day appeal was substituted for the previous seven day drive...
...meantime, today, he must men the King of Sweden and tomorrow must tell the Royal Academy of Science how three Harvard men discovered the "the sue culture' method of growing viruses...