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Word: methodism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost any other Senator would have sought some method to explain that letter away, but not handsome, debonair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Carolina Pull | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...Jackson, looking his 70 years, adjusted his bifocal spectacles, described his method of repairing a throat crushed and puckered by a blow, strangulation, fall, crash or gash: "We have gone to the iron foundry for mechanical aid in treating such cases. Iron is cast through the use of sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bronchoscopist | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...pains of childbirth have been grossly exaggerated in the minds of American women . . . by irresponsible allusions to the dangers of childbirth and by sensational magazine articles which have gone so far as to advocate Caesarean section as the only humane method of delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Childbirth: Nature v. Drugs | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...Biblical times, thousands of men met in the middle of a plain and slashed one another until only a few were left standing. Today, the primary aim is not to kill but to incapacitate. And poison gas is an ideal method of achieving that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Priest on Poison | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...nine small glass beads. The electric current causes tiny rods to push up momentarily through holes in the beads. The position of these rods corresponds to the letter which is being translated. Besides offering an unlimited choice of reading matter, Inventor Ranseen believes that reading by his method is easier to learn than Braille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rod Reader | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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