Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hopkins School of Medicine. It encouraged other innovations, Goucher had its bloomer girls when bloomers were still a shocking novelty. Nowadays its students take only three courses at a time, are tested not merely on the facts they know but on such broader matters as their understanding of scientific method, their enjoyment of art, their grasp of religious and philosophic values...
...Williams due insisted that the university method is so impersonal that even though if has the big men it is impossible for the student to come in contact with them...
...Antonio they talked to Tom Slick, the young Texas oil millionaire who is pumping much of his fortune into three scientific research foundations. One of the foundations has worked out a new construction technique which Slick thinks might revolutionize the building industry; another has figured out a new method of artificial insemination which will permit scrub cattle to give birth to purebreds. All Texans-from college presidents to cattlemen-took their abundant energy and confidence for granted. Dallas Banker Bob Thornton had an explanation for it. Said he: "Energy is mostly habit. Take the way people in Dallas walk...
...story moves rapidly, by short scenes; the scenes rapidly, by short speeches; the speeches are introduced, as in a play, by the name of the character, followed by a word or two indicating his manner. Explanatory passages are short. Such methods will annoy some readers, who will feel that they are not getting a book, but only the outline of one. In a sense, they will be right. The style of Jean Barois is only the skeleton of the method Martin du Gard fleshed out in The Thibaults, but it is made of good solid bones...
...problem of overproduction by farmers because the government is always giving them a good price. This problem is handled by marketing quotas, drawn up by the farmers themselves. A quota limits the amount of a commodity a farmer can market, if he wants to receive subsidy benefits. This method, in effect, gives the farmers monopoly powers. Under the Brannan plan, the quota system would be greatly expanded. This part of the plan has raised the howl of "government control" in Congress. The main argument against the quota system is that it is liable to be abused by the monopolistic groups...