Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mosteller, summarizing his analyses, begun in 1941 and resumed last summer, described how he struck on the key-word method after standard techniques, such as sentence length and number of repeated adjectives, nouns, etc. had proven unsatisfactory...
...extension of birth control runs the risk of dividing public opinion. The Draper report, however, provides a method by which the United Stats can work towards birth control without arousing domestic opposition. Assistance for population limitation programs, requested by other nations, could be provided by this country or by a suitable international agency. So long as men remain men, population will pose a problem-but one that can be controlled...
...smokers have a higher death rate from lung cancer than nonsmokers, 2) heavy and long-continued cigarette smoking goes with the highest lung-cancer death rate, and 3) it helps somewhat to quit smoking, even after years of indulgence. But this time Dr. Burney went farther, added: "No method of treating tobacco or filtering the smoke has been demonstrated to be effective in materially reducing or eliminating the hazard of lung cancer...
...from Gloucester, Mass. On a trip to Labrador some 40 years ago, Birdseye began to wonder why fish and meat that he froze quickly in the -50° temperature tasted just as good and fresh when he cooked them six months later, while food frozen by the old, slow method lost much of its quality and flavor. Birdseye persisted until he found out why: quick freezing prevents formation of large cell-destroying ice crystals. He went back home to Gloucester, worked out a commercial quick-freeze process, set up the business that became the foundation of the frozen-foods industry...
Charlie Mortimer believes that there is still a great future in convenience foods: "their growth is just beginning." Better methods of packaging, freezing, mixing and cooking are on the way to tempt the housewife. She may soon be able to duplicate the cooking feats of big hotels and restaurants; many of them now move individual meals from freezer to plate in two minutes via an infra-red range. A new method of freeze drying may replace many of the present frozen foods with dehydrated foods that will not have to be kept in a freezer...