Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bureau is setting up its "Numerical Weather Prediction Unit" with a staff of 30 to serve the machine. It has high confidence that the method will be in practical use by next fall. But to prove its effectiveness, the bureau plans to give it a really hard test. Its first job will be to digest the weather information that was available just before last Nov. 6, when the bureau predicted fair weather for the U.S. Northeast-and a howling blizzard blew in off the sea. If the machine predicts correctly the unexpected wind-shift that made monkeys...
...Paul MacNamara insisted that "Palm Springs is not a test. We are beginning operations. We have opened our store. The results will be interesting to everyone concerned -motion pictures, football and baseball, business and the FCC-all of the people who, in the future, will be using this new method of distribution...
...Republican suggestions that he might be a presidential candidate in 1936 or 1940; such a course did not seem consistent with honor. He glowed like a schoolboy when he heard that F.D.R. had referred to him as a "great executive." But when the President chose Harry Hopkins' method of spending relief money ("shoveling" most of it out for leaf raking and other make-work jobs instead of following Ickes' advice and spending it all on permanent public works), he felt bound to resign. After Roosevelt talked him out of it he wrote in exasperation: "He sidetracked...
...confusion over the method of distributing basketball tickets, the H. A. A. last night clarified this year's rules...
...young Medical School professor has developed a fully automatic method for injecting atropine, the only know antidote for deadly "nerve gas," into the bloodstream...