Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S method of axe-grinding is the most subtle in journalistic history: It is therefore the most powerful and unimpeachable. One does not mind that in so excellent a news-medium. What one does mind is such far-fetched pretensions to the opposite...
...Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa. His method of transferring from the defunct Farm Revolt to the triumphant Hoover vehicle was to attack one of Lowdenism's loudest promoters, George N. Peek, executive chairman of the Corn Belt Conference. He accused Mr. Peek of plotting to ditch Lowden in favor of Vice President Dawes, whose outer office Peek used while lobbying for the McNary-Haugen Bill. Mr. Peek has lately been advising farmers to go Democratic. Piqued at Peek, Senator Brookhart said the Democratic farm plank was worse than the Republican; that Hoover knows more about the farm problem...
Fish. A new method has been developed whereby Norwegian herrings, Siberian sturgeon, faraway fish of every kind may be served in inland U. S. cities in the same luscious, savory, juicy state that they enjoyed when caught. The method consists of freezing so quickly and at so low a temperature that the flesh cells are not injured by ice crystals. The chemical composition remains the same; there is no opportunity for bacterial development or decomposition...
Seeds. Recently Prof. William Frederick Gericke, associate plant physiologist at the University of California, announced that he could fertilize seeds with phosphate salts making fertilization of the soil unnecessary. For three years he has worked on the problem; finally he developed a method of seed treatment on a large scale at low cost. Barley so treated yielded a 15-fold increase in phosphorus-poor ground. Untreated barley seed in the same soil yielded no crop...
...with realistic details concerning Louise's husband who "had drifted into a discreditable way of life," Louise herself who "made all men feel a little virtuous who kept their eyes off her," and Hague whose early life had known many lands and many women. No doubt the accepted method would consider this data essential to "atmosphere," but Viola Meynell holds to an earlier tradition of beauty. For she is daughter of the late Alice Meynell, poet and essayist...