Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blowing directly into the mouth of a person who has stopped breathing is the oldest method of artificial respiration known to man (and akin to the oldest technique of real respiration: the Lord's wafting life into Adam's nostrils). But distaste for touching a moribund victim has brought numerous alternatives, from rolling a man over a barrel to the Nielsen "back-pressure, arm-lift" method, which last year superseded the Schafer "prone-pressure" system in the manual of the American Red Cross (TIME...
...Fool. Gervasi's every moment was tremendously stylized, to the point where he seemed to have rehearsed in someone else's production. But he spoke better than most, and his mournful grace made a good foil for Lear's frenzy. Only in the scene on the heath did his method fail...
...Report, the Committee on General Education indicated a sincere concern for giving the generally educated student a fundamental comprehension of the natural sciences. Yet, partly through implication and partly through direct statement, the Committee withheld an important tool for the adequate presentation of the scientific method...
...claim of general education is that the history of science is a part of science," the report tells us. This is undoubtedly true, and it is also true that the report does show a concern over the presentation of the scientific method. However, in the leap from report to practice, history gained the upper hand, and method was somewhat lost in the shuffle. A first step towards putting the natural sciences in a modern perspective would be to remedy this situation...
...which examine some particular field of general relevance in modern science using past developments to lead up to the central problem of concern. In physics, for example, a course in particle theory could be used as a specific standpoint from which to develop an understanding of the modern scientific method which has a far more general application than the subject immediately at hand. Similar courses in biology, chemistry and physiology can easily be envisioned, and they would serve a purpose beyond their theoretical value. They would enable the Committee on General Education to obtain the services of some...