Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Engineering, was able to state precisely why a person may drop dead upon being shocked by a small current of electricity. Such an accident may happen when a person, still wet from a bath, touches an improperly grounded electric light in the bathroom. Mr. Ferris and associates rediscovered a method of reviving such shocked persons...
...William Russell Levis & Edward Lewis Axelman of Philadelphia call theirs a "Modern Method for Prevention of Postoperative Distention." They depend upon a newly synthesized drug to keep the bowels moving and expelling any gas which may form. The drug: dimethyl-carbamic ester of 3-hydroxyphenyl-trimethyl ammonium methyl-sulphate, a chemical compound which has been telescoped to prostigmin. Drs. Levis & Axelman inject small amounts of prostigmin "at the time of operation or shortly thereafter and continue injections for 24 to 48 hours at four to six hour intervals, or until such time that we feel the condition of the patient...
...impossible, we believe, to reconcile their different viewpoints rather than to accentuate them by further antagonism. It seems a pity that a break in athletic relations, no matter how minor, should occur between these two institutions now. Princeton can well testify to the unsatisfactory and inconclusive nature of this method of solution. On the other hand, abuse and impatience over a fait accompli brings the problem no nearer to a satisfactory conclusion...
...them. Building has merely fallen behind the net increase in the number of families and the normal rate of housing obsolescence. The slack has been more than taken up by two or more families sharing what is rated as a one-family house or apartment. During Depression the usual method of doubling up was for young married couples to return to their parents or for parents to descend upon their married children...
Among solid bits of testimony likely to help FCC get its money were: ¶On rentals of some 13.000,000 telephones to its 23 associated operating companies from 1902 to 1927, A. T. & T. made no less than $50,000,000 and, by one method of computation, $216,000,000 above a 6% return on investment. Rental charges were included in a general charge of 4½% of operating company revenues ''for engineering, financial and legal service." In 1927 A. T. & T. sold the telephones to the operating companies for $38,000,000, making...