Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first method of counting atomic particles was by "scintillations." Using a microscope, early atomic physicists counted the tiny flashes of light that are made by particles from radium as they hit a fluorescent screen. As soon as Geiger tubes and other radiation detectors were developed, physicists gave up this tedious method. Counting scintillations by eye and microscope was about the most tiresome routine in physics...
...learned most of its skiing from the disciples of Austrian Hannes Schneider. Schneider's Arlberg method teaches beginners how to brake their speed, swoosh around trees, and turn -basing all movements on the snowplow (pointing the ski tips inwards to make a V) and the stem (pushing the back part of one ski out at an angle for a turn). Allais keeps his skis always parallel, controlling his speed by sideslipping, and turning by ruade (kicking the backs of the skis up and pivoting on the tips while rotating the body in the direction of the turn...
Allais' admirers insist that his method is swifter, simpler and safer-but so far, the U.S. is a long way from accepting it. Schneider himself still teaches at the Eastern skiers' mecca, North Conway, N.H. Most U.S. Olympic stars, including Slalom Champion Gretchen Fraser, are confirmed Arlbergians. Even Sun Valley isn't committed: it is teaching both methods...
...skis, ski boots and even goggles for skiers. He now spends half the year teaching at his own school in Portillo, Chile, hopes eventually to have a school of his own in the U.S. But he doesn't expect to convert the whole Western Hemisphere to the French method; his partisans claim more for his technique than he does himself. Says he dryly: "I do not pretend to have invented skiing...
...cures administered to psychotic calculators are weirdly like the modern cures for insanity. One method is to overload the calculator with an extra strong electrical impulse in hope that the shock will stop the machine's oscillations. This is rather like the shock treatment given to human psychotics. Another cure is to isolate part of the calculator's mechanism, hoping to cut off the source of trouble. This is "like the lobotomies which brain surgeons perform. Lobotomies sometimes work (for both machine and brain) but are apt to reduce, in both cases, the subject's judgment...