Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process has lengthened from 21 days to two years the period in which blood may be preserved. The technique involves a rapid and practical method of removing a glycerol preservative which freezes blood at 79 degrees below zero centigrade...
...mile Thor. It has test-fired ten Thors, five successfully, two part-successfully, has a production line going, expects to deploy well upward of 20 Thors into Europe with "initial operational capability" this year. Thor is guided by an inertial direction system backed up by an alternate method, is powered by a single rocket engine that generates a big kick of 135,000 lbs. Recently Defense Secretary Neil McElroy ordered Chrysler to get a production line set up for the Army's liquid-fuel 1,500-mile Jupiter, and hopes to deliver a dozen or so Jupiters to NATO...
...life, the compulsion to security, the marriage with death. The marriage is consummated, not with a gesture of creation but with an act of destruction. The daughter murders her father's mistress (Deborah Kerr). Technically, the death is either a suicide or an accident, but if the method is euphemistic the meaning is clear. Father and daughter drift off on an aimless round of inconsequential pleasures...
...engage clever young men in discussion; they thought they knew everything, but after being subjected to the Socratic treatment, they began to realize that there were a few things they did not know. I had imagined that Harvard education consisted in an application of the Socratic method, but now it seems to me that we of the Harvard faculty fall down on our job, else how explain that a student can spend three or four years at Harvard and not have at least some of his "know-it-all" dogmatism rubbed...
Experimental evidence that modern electronic computers may be able to "learn" from experience and devise their own method for solving given problems has been found by Richard M. Friedberg '56, a second-year student at the Medical School...