Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summary, I believe that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce proposal promises too much, under-estimates the cost, specifies an inequitable method for financing the cost, jeopardizes the security of the Old Age and Survivors Insurance System and weankens when it should strengthen, the relationship between benefits and past wages, so essential to the maintenance of a contributory social insurance system. Arthur J. Altmeyer, Chairman, United States Social Security Board...
...illustrates a basic personality trait with which Eisenhower's staff officers in SHAPE in World War II also were familiar. Eisenhower is a slow starter. He likes to surround a problem, to watch, listen, absorb and learn all he can. Then he acts decisively, firmly. This was his method of operation in planning the invasions of North Africa and Normandy. It was his technique in the presidential campaign last year. He now recalls, with understandable enjoyment, the much-quoted August 1952 Scripps-Howard editorial which declared that his campaign was "running like a dry creek...
This is twice as old as the proved age of his next-door neighbor, the primitive man from Folsom. Said Anthropologist Hibben: "This is not geological guesswork. It's an exact, mathematical method of dating. A great many skeptics did not believe man existed in the New World prior to 10,000 years ago. We now have incontrovertible proof...
Unceasing Repetition. Arde Bulova has worked out his own method of doing business with the cartel with one hand, and competing with it with the other. In Switzerland, where his company has a plant, he had to join the cartel; in the U.S., he has kept on top in a business noted for freewheeling competition...
...this laborious method was the master stroke of the film's creators. They realized, as the makers of Anna-puma did not (see below), that audiences must be prepared almost as carefully as climbers for the upper altitudes. The ghastly Himalayan heights alone, shown to the general public for the first time in this picture, are enough to shake the heart of any man, and the further sight and sound of a fellow human being, gasping on them like an expiring fly, is an experience more severe than even, a horror-hardened moviegoer may care to undergo without...