Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pursuing this lexicography, the booklet reveals that "Dear Robert Louis Stevenson" does not mean Dear Robert Louis Stevenson at all, but is instead "an efficient method of remembering the Quad houses, "which are conveniently named Davison, Raymond, Lathrop, and Strong. "Stacks" are also defined...
...Speed, intuition, excitement: that is my method of creation." Thus natty George Mathieu. 36, French "action painter," describes the process behind the globular, pyrotechnic displays that have earned him a reputation as one of the zaniest, smartest abstractionists in Paris...
AIRLINE FINANCING of planes will be made easier and cheaper by new law allowing carriers to issue equipment trust certificates, a leasing method that railroads have long used to get rolling stock. Under plan, airline borrows money to buy equipment, then gives title for the equipment to the lender by issuing trust certificates. Airline regains title from the lender when bill is paid...
...butcher to the world. For gourmets who patronized the yard's Sirloin Room he added a touch: they could pick and brand their own steaks before broiling. To expand the Prince estate income, he went into industrial research. One Prince project has developed a safe, cheap method of liquefying and shipping methane gas, which Continental Oil Co., in a joint venture, hopes to market in a year in areas that have no natural...
...days; his talons are usually retracted. Ironically, he has the least patience with certain literary tendencies which he helped foster. Of the "New Criticism," which he egged on with such devices as the elaborate notes to The Waste Land (since dismissed by him as "bogus scholarship"), he writes: "The method is to take a well-known poem . . . analyze it stanza by stanza and line by line, and extract, squeeze, tease, press every drop of meaning out of it. It might be called the lemon-squeezer school of criticism...