Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even when it is acting in perfectly good faith, the Student Council's method of operation often provokes criticism of its motives. There may be merit in the Council's arguments against Harvard's continued participation in the National Student Association. But the Council's hasty disposal of this important issue last Monday and its subsequent refusal to entertain further discussion of the question at next Monday's meeting would indicate a blatant disregard for a large segment of student opinion...
Radio Giveaway. Another detecting method is by means of radio waves caused by the gamma rays from a nuclear explosion above the surface of the earth or sea. Radio waves from a one-kiloton test can be detected 4,000 miles away under favorable Circumstances, and can locate within 20 miles an explosion 600 miles away...
...these detecting methods work very quickly. Another method, collecting radioactive debris from an explosion, takes more time, but is nonetheless useful. The experts recommended that rainfall all over the earth be checked for radioactivity. In dry countries a special collecting surface should be washed down periodically and the water checked. Weather airplanes flying their regular routes can carry observers and collecting equipment...
...reporting that they had fed hormone-treated meat to animals with startling results: spayed females went into heat again, and normal males became infertile or impotent. The researchers forgot to mention how much free hormone was left in the feed. But there was another bogy: in an alternate method, hormone pellets are implanted in the steer's ear or neck for gradual absorption. From the neck, unabsorbed pellets might slip into an edible cut and thence into an unsuspecting customer...
...husband or wife is justified when a woman's health is at stake-but never when a government makes it compulsory as a means of population control. But voluntary sterilization might be justified ("after the procreation of a proper number of children") as "a safe and easy method of family planning." One disadvantage of sterilization, the report warns, is that it is "generally an irreversible process" and may be regretted in changed circumstances. The bishops note with disapproval that sterilization operations are being increasingly sought and recommended "without any adequate appreciation of its gravity as a moral decision...