Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When zealous henchmen were surpassing themselves in obeying Joseph Stalin's orders to collectivize the Russian peasantry by any ruthless means, he brought them up short with his famed statement in the Soviet press in March 1930 entitled "Dizzy From Success." This has since become a method by which the Dictator enables others to bear the blame for his total or partial failures. Last week Stalin was in the sunny Caucasus and rumors that he is suffering from hardening of the cardiac artery were reported in several European newspapers. Meanwhile his Russian henchmen were again definitely "Dizzy From Success...
Snapped spry and equally quick-witted President Angell: "I was told when leaving the deluge this morning that this was President Conant's method of soaking the rich. So long as they are Harvard's rich, I don't care. But the endowed institutions of the U. S. cannot long survive under the threat of unjust taxation...
...gravitate to the Left. Result is that the Left is usually vociferous, the Right inarticulate. And while the better business orators have turned from reviling the New Deal to extolling what is loosely called "the American Way." industry as a whole has had to fall back upon the only method it knows to get a hearing- advertising...
...lecture, to suggest that more than one copy of a book assigned in a course of two hundred should be kept at the desk in Widener, to laugh at the strange names under which the most ordinary of ordinary foods sometimes masquerade on dining hall menus, to improve the method of scholarship assignments, House applications, or of changing tutors, to ask the Deans just why, or why not, to examine the interesting methods of any or of all the University's activities, to support or condemn Students Leagues, Unions, Democracies, Societies, or Associations, to discover rare and little known secretaries...
...Ulanski of Philadelphia told the American Congress of Physical Therapy that a certain kind of high-frequency current gave "instant relief" to most of his neuralgia patients. Said he: ". . . We have been so impressed with the almost instant relief and the uniformity of results obtained that we feel this method of treatment warrants a preliminary report to stimulate further investigation. However, we are unable, at the present time, to state on what scientific basis this treatment rests. Several physiological processes have come to mind, and it is our purpose to pursue this subject further with the hope that...