Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holmes. When Stooge Watson complimented Detective Holmes for a shrewd guess, Holmes pro tested: "No, no, I never guess. It is a shocking habit, destructive of the logical faculty. ... I could only say what was the balance of probability." Detective Holmes, said Mathematician Darwin, was using the real scientific method. Another tidbit of popular science disclosed at the meeting...
...dangling from the plane by a rope to catch another rope (with the mail sack attached) suspended between two posts. To deliver sacks without bursting them, experimenters have used nets, parachutes, hinged rods on the bottom of the sack which absorb the shock. The Post Office left the scooping method to the airlines, subject to approval by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Deadline for bids: September...
Last week a more scientific way of dealing with starfish was reported by Science Service from the U. S. Fisheries Biological Laboratory at Milford, Conn. The method, successfully tested in Long Island Sound, is to drop a barrage of quicklime through the water on the oyster beds. Quicklime, which is cheap and corrosive, eats holes in starfishes' skin, exposes their vitals, finally kills them. A quicklime bombardment of 480 lb. per acre of sea floor disposed of four starfish out of five. The chemical does no appreciable harm to the better-protected oysters, clams, crabs...
...newborn. In 1931 he let nature take its course, left the original oily "varnish" on several babies, neither washed nor greased them for two weeks. He found them free from all skin infections. Last week, the Multnomah County (Ore.) Hospital announced that it had employed the "Patrick method" for three years, found only two cases of pyodermia among 1,916 unwashed, unanointed babies. Each day clothes were changed and buttocks washed with warm water, but beyond this the infants were not handled...
Said Pediatrician Landon Howard Smith of the University of Oregon, who introduced the Patrick method into Multnomah: "Within twelve hours after birth the infant's skin is clean; the vernix [film covering the newborn] has disappeared! Unless one has witnessed the phenomenon, this miracle does not seem possible. It would appear that if this greasy, slimy, newborn infant, who looks as if he had been rescued from a sewer, were not immediately cleaned up, he would smell like a dead fish in 24 hours. What a contrast to behold him a few hours later looking fresh and clean...