Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum off an electric coil so that the aluminum vapor deposits itself on the glass. At Johns Hopkins Dr. Wood used the same method for laying down on his plates first a thin coat of hard chromium, then a layer of soft aluminum. To make diffraction gratings the diamond point had to cut only through the aluminum skin. Last week Dr. Wood left no doubt that these gratings, with 210,000 lines in a space...
Although no mention is made of the reason for this unusual omission, it is obvious that the action is a direct result of the contested decision rendered at Yale on March 7 when the undefeated Harvard team encountered the Eli fighters and a disagreement arose as to the method of scoring used by Yale...
...Houses were to adopt a uniform method of election like the "open primary", it would do away with this possibility for the House Committee to place names on the ballot that were not popular choices. Under an "open primary" set-up, one week before the elections were to take place, the residents of the Houses would vote for the men they wished to elect. The results would be counted, and the three or four persons receiving the greatest number of votes would automatically be put up for the final election. Out of this four, one or two would be finally...
Examination of Theoretical Method in Economics: Joseph A. Schumpeter. The Theoretical Apparatus of Economics...
Even the notice of Dr. Archibald's kudos was erroneous. Said his citation: "His work led to the introduction of thoracoplasty in America. He performed the first operation in 1912 and, by writing and speaking before organizations, he helped to spread the method throughout this country." According to the late Dr. Fielding Hudson Garrison's impeccable History of Medicine: "Dr. George Ryerson Fowler (1848-1906) first performed thoracoplasty in 1893." Thoracoplasty consists of removing parts of ribs along the spine, on the side of the diseased lung. The ribs then collapse like slats into the chest cavity, preventing...