Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Congress voted a $6 million appropriation for long-term, low-interest student loans under the National Defense Education Act, it failed to provide a satisfactory method of allocation. Under the law, if requests from institutions of higher learning exceed the appropriation (a foregone conclusion), the requests within each state are slashed by a corresponding percentage. In Massachusetts, for example, colleges asked for over $2.3 million, whereas only $249,680 was available. Resulting grants thus were pared to about ten per cent of requests and ranged from Boston College's $54,472 to the $51 gift to North Adams State...
...This method worked--worked so well that by Open House Night, only 20 sophomores were on the class president's list as potential trouble spots. The Committee was active here again, patrolling Prospect Street, wearing white armbands for identification and equipped with walkie-talkies ("Hello, Tommy, this is Phil--do you read me? Over. Jones and Smith just signed in at Terrace. Over. We're down to seven. Over and Out."). Gradually, the list of men "in trouble" was pared down; shortly before the 10 o'clock deadline, everyone was accounted for; "100% was achieved...
...second method would be to consolidate the existing historical courses about reading lists which emphasize great literature, leaving the secondary work to private study in further courses for concentrators. The sacrifice of representative fulness would be more than compensated for by the increase in quality and comprehensiveness, and such a policy might help considerably in securing a wider interest throughout the College in literature written before...
With whole organs like the heart, however, it is impossible to use this method, since the organ cannot remain alive outside the body long enough to be treated completely with glycerol. Furthermore, though other methods have actually been able to freeze the heart, no heart chilled in these ways has ever beaten again...
...investigating team noted that insects resist cold by dehydrating. Thus, by dehydrating the heart, they felt they might effectively lower its freezing point so that it could be cooled without damage. Since the normal method of dehydration is by freezing, Doctor Samuel C. Collins, head of the Department of Cryogenic Engineering at M.I.T., devised another means to dehydrate the heart...