Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is an age of unbelievers, but it may well be that if the man can be found for the job, the Papacy will take back to itself much of its medieval power. Neutrality legislation included, no one seems to have much faith in any existing method of preventing the young men from following the dollar to war. If it can fulfill its utilitarian opportunities, the Church may well return to provide that civilizing unity which was its to give during the Middle Ages, which the profit motive supplied for the expanding capitalism of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries...
...members in a quarter of a century. The Class has produced only one Bishop of Albania, or, at any rate, only one who later became Prime Minister. Only one member of the Class has caught a Giant Panda. We have only one Weather Man who advocates the "frontal method" (three dimensions) over the "surface method" (two dimensions). In all these years, only one member has been elected Village Clerk of Hewlett Harbor...
...league team may not hire an amateur player until he has first played for a minor-league team. Only exceptions to the rule are college players, who are occasionally able enough to join major-league teams without serving an apprenticeship, but major-league club-owners long since perfected a method of evading their own law in the case of non-college players. When a major-league scout spots an able sandlot prospect, he notifies a friendly minor-league team, which hires the player with the understanding that the major-league team which discovered him has an option on his services...
...went East to unload a big stock of gasoline owned by a pinched oil company, stayed to form his own New York Stock Exchange firm two years later. About him he gathered a group of people mostly oldtime mining men, who also liked long shots. They promoted the centrifugal method of making cast iron pipe, a process which revolutionized that ancient art. They put $2,000,000 into the neutrodyne patents of an obscure Stevens Institute professor named Louis Alan Hazeltine, "the man who took the squeak out of radio...
Waxing is an art, and like skiing itself, though there are fundamental principles which should be followed, it can only be fully mastered by much experience. Among the first rate skiers almost each individual has his own method of waxing...