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Word: methodic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department at a cost of $3 billion. When it is completed, this system reportedly will be able to detect, identify and track all aircraft over the United States. If the CAA can somehow, through cooperation with the SAGE system, place its tracking operations on a semi-automatic basis, a method of effective traffic control will become possible, and the risky "visual flight" operation may be all but eliminated...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: The Crowded Sky | 5/15/1958 | See Source »

...much to verbal arrangements as to our usual view of action and motive. No one would deny even young writers the right to manipulate point of view and form, but it should be obvious that this can succeed only when it is based upon a mastery of the realistic method. Finnegan's Wake comes after Dubliners, and King Lear after Henry...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Advocate | 5/13/1958 | See Source »

...them dirtier." The Defense Department denied it. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss resented it. President Eisenhower said at his news conference: "We have looked constantly to cleaner bombs so that you could have a more local and advantageous use of the nuclear weapon rather than just a shotgun method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Two Kinds of Tests? (Contd.) | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Sanskrit & Papimento. Founder and household god of the language firm was Charles Berlitz' grandfather Maximilian (46 languages), who started his first school in 1878 in Providence, invented a teaching technique now referred to reverently as The Method. It consists chiefly of one precept: under no circumstances is anything but the language under study spoken in class. A corollary: for the first few lessons, all instruction is verbal-otherwise, Charles Berlitz explains, students tend to transpose pronunciation values in languages sharing the same alphabet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Language Merchants | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Boudin, who was himself temporarily refused a passport in 1954, claimed passport denial is a method of punishing men for beliefs they held long before the passport laws were passed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boudin Criticizes State Department Passport Denial | 5/6/1958 | See Source »

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