Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this controversy about Billy Graham's method of getting us to glory land [TIME, July 8] leaves me cold. Catholics and Protestants are nice people, but they'll be so busy checking routes and accommodations that the boat will leave them...
After personally supervising more than 200 pregnancies for women who had had three or more consecutive pregnancies ending in abortion. Javert developed a highly personal method of treatment. He still relies heavily on vitamins A. C and K. also on hesperidin (sold as a source of the controversial vitamin P) to discourage the premature bleeding which often signals (and may cause) abortions. He was one of the first to use tranquilizers. Impressed with the fact that many patients do not gain weight early in their pregnancies, but may actually lose, he encourages them to eat all they want then, watches...
...Radiophysics Division of the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Dr. Bowen was put in charge of Australian rainmaking more than ten years ago. By careful and skeptical investigation he soon discovered why most efforts had been failures. The commercial rainmakers' favorite method (because it was the cheapest) was to spray silver iodide into the air from ground generators. Dr. Bowen found by actual experiment that ground-generated silver iodide seldom reaches the clouds. He proved further that silver iodide somehow can become inactivated as a rainmaker after less than one hour of exposure...
...knew that the next candidate, element No. 102, would be the toughest yet. Last week, in a joint release of Argonne, Britain's Harwell laboratory and Sweden's Nobel Institute for Physics, a U.S.-British-Swedish team sparked by Fields reported the creation of element 102. Their method involved footwork as well as physics...
...Needles. Proponents of a live but attenuated virus, in a vaccine made to be taken by mouth, predicted a swing to their method. Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin (TIME, Oct. 15) suggested that his method might be the answer for poor countries whose people cannot afford three Salk shots at $1 each, or where migrant populations cannot be brought together three times at the right intervals...