Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Work is further along on the building for the Cambridge accelerator, Teele said. Although no foundation has yet been laid, ground has been broken. Teele emphasized the continuous, long-range method by which physical expansion goes on. The accelerator, he added, had been contemplated for some time, yet the work was just getting started. "We've dug a hole," he said...
...laying the foundation for the recent development of psychosomatic medicine. Also to Freud's credit he lays much of the greater tolerance now shown by laymen toward severe mental illness and more humane ways of treating it. In psychology itself, Jones holds, Freud's investigative method compares in importance with the discovery of the microscope-"in both cases a hitherto invisible world was revealed...
Gradual Truth. Conservative Catholics have argued that the new method might teach children harmful "speculative tendencies." Protested one pamphlet: "Give the children the proper words. Later they will understand." The Holy Office finally agreed: "There cannot be gradual teaching of the truth...
...most interesting out-of-class activities is the distilling of an occasional bottle of "mountain dew," the proof of which he scientifically measures on a chart of specific gravities. Then, by a slightly less scientivc, but equally effective, method he correlates the specific gravity to the proper proof. His own favorite is specific gravity .932 (102 proof), although occasionally a .930-specific-gravity (104 proof) batch will be accepted...
...first flight of Project Stratoscope, thinks Dr. Schwarzschild, was so successful that the same method may be used to take pictures of the planets. A larger balloon-borne telescope floating far above atmospheric turbulence might decide once and for all the romantic debate about life on Mars...