Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called Manual of Silent Method-finger-sign language-was brought to the U. S. by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, who went to Europe in 1815 to study education of the deaf, and for whom Gallaudet College, founded in 1864 at Washington, was named. The Clarke School, founded in 1867, had as its first trustee-president the late famed Alexander Graham Bell, whose wife was deaf. It was while experimenting on sound-amplification to aid the deaf that Dr. Bell invented the telephone, in 1876. One Jeanie Lippitt, now Mrs. William B. Weeden of Providence, R. I., was the first...
Briefly, the old and often successful British method of repeating in a tone of horror, what someone else has frankly said, 'was applied, last week, to President Coolidge, very much as it was once applied to Wilhelm II. Only British Labor's Daily Herald went the whole hog and bluntly said...
...materially reduced through a new kind of armor and a new division of bulkheads below the waterline. Its structural advantages are manifold Chief among them are, first, a great saving of weight through the use of light metals in all possible parts; second, weight saving through use of electrical method of welding its plates, doing away with all rivets. Through this alone we saved 550 tons...
...Harvard and Yale Gun Clubs will match their skill on the range at West Haven, Conecticut, this morning in the annual shoot. The method of scoring will be that of adding the five high scores of each team...
...center of our galaxy is said to be 47,000 light years away, and lies in the constellation of Sagittarius. The nucleus which surrounds this center is 9 Kiloparsecs in diameter and 5 Kiloparsecs in thickness. There are 3,200 light years to a Kiloparsec. The method of discovering this nucleus and determining the position of the center of our galaxy will be described in a later issue of the CRIMSON...