Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Others? How much credence should cancer victims and their kin give to the Murray report? Experts on both sides of the border were puzzled to answer. Despite Dr. Murray's standing as a surgeon, he has little background in immunology. And some immunologists said flatly that his method would not work. U.S. critics called Dr. Murray's report superficial, wanted to know why it covered only 91 cases though he had begun treatment on 233. They also wanted many more details than he had supplied to be sure that all patients had been in the hopeless state that...
Summoned into emergency session three weeks ago amidst Russian cries of threatening war, the U.N. General Assembly met in Manhattan to defuse the international time bombs threatening the peace of the Middle East. Last week, after eight days of palaver, the Assembly brought forth its own novel method of bomb disposal. The technique: wrap the infernal device in verbal cotton wool-this deadens that unpleasant ticking sound-and tiptoe quickly away...
...early, jealously guarded secret was the method for melting designs in enamel into rich, dark blue glass (see color). By the 16th century, turning from enamel, glass blowers were getting their effect from glass alone, embedding canes of opaque white glass to form latticelike patterns, or trapping pockets of air between the rods of glass to make Venice's famed vetro di trina (lace glass...
...test smokes little more than half the cigarette's 85-mm. length, also measures only that amount of tar which dissolves in chloroform, misses a lot. The Foster D. Snell labs, which test for Reader's Digest, told the Blatnik subcommittee that the chloroform extraction method measures only 69% of the tar in smoke. On the other hand, Snell tests only 45 cigarettes of each brand (v. 100 to 200 per brand in some other tests), which competitors say are too few for statistical accuracy...
...acoustic method, suited for any kind of blast except for those set off underground or in outer space. With sensitive microbarometers and hydrophones, observation posts could pick up the low-frequency sound waves that fan out for thousands of miles after every nuclear explosion. Unfortunately, the sound waves are subject to distortion by such natural upheavals as volcanic eruptions, meteorites, landslides and even thunder. ¶ Collection of Radioactive debris that can travel up to 1,200 miles a day at a height of 40,000 ft. Touchy about having air patrols over their territory, the Russian scientists at first balked...