Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fueled missiles is that they cannot retaliate instantly. Time needed to fuel the Air Force's test-ICBM Atlas: a minimum 15 minutes after an hour-long countdown. Time needed to fuel the Air Force's test IRBM Thor, even using a promising but not fully tested method of "force-feeding": eight minutes. The U.S.'s lox missiles could conceivably be knocked out by the enemy before they could be fueled and primed for launching...
...converter is made of two plates of tungsten that are a fraction of a millimeter apart. Between them is a vapor in near vacuum. The plates are so treated that they have different electric potentials. (G.E. will disclose neither the vapor nor the method of treating the plates.) The plate with the higher potential is heated to about 1,500° centigrade, the other to around 1,000° centigrade. The first plate is hot enough to release electrons; the second is not. Clouds of electrons boil off the hotter plate (the cathode) and are attracted to the cooler plate...
...first to spark a widely successful management course was Harvard Business School, which set up an advanced program for the Government in World War II to train executives in new production techniques. Out of that early course grew Harvard's famous "case-method" system for business, in which executives grapple with actual problems drawn from the business world. Today Harvard offers a solid fare of executive courses, and many other universities have followed its lead with top management programs, notably M.I.T., Columbia, Stanford, Michigan State, and Rutgers. For his excursion into the halls of ivy, the corporate...
...method was fairly common in the 19th century, particularly among working mothers who needed to keep the kids quiet while they went to their factory jobs, used such alcoholic medications as "Mother's Blessing," "Infant's Preservative...
...putting into words directions for finding the way back. But words were not all the great Rumi had; he taught his followers a way to dance themselves into a state of mystical union with the Divine. They became the famed sect of Mevlevi dervishes, who carried on their mystical method for seven centuries in monasteries throughout the Middle East. Known as the whirling dervishes, they are popularly confused with the Rifais or "howling" dervishes, who inflicted wounds upon themselves and were sometimes ritually trampled under horses' hoofs. In contarst, the Mevlevi dervishes were no holy-rolling orgiasts. With serenity...