Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite method employed by dormitory thieves involves the collaboration of two confederates who contact Harvard students at Boston hotels and bars...
...Paris M. Raoul Michel-May suggested to the French Academy of Sciences a new method of exterminating mosquitoes in open ponds. At present a favorite method is to spread a thin film of oil on the water. When the mosquito larvae, which breathe through tubes in their tails, thrust their tails out of water to get air, oil clogs the tubes and the larvae suffocate. M. May recommended sprinkling the water with talcum powder impregnated with a compound of chlorine and ethane which would choke the larvae to death but would not harm human beings...
...comedy called The Magnificent Cuckold, Meierhold's radical method gets full play. The stage is completely bare except for some intricate scaffolding and necessary lighting effects. The actors all wear denim overalls. "The plot," says Observer Houghton. "is the old triangle situation, a man. his wife and her lover, given by Meierhold what they call in Russia social meaning.' This is apparently accomplished by the introduction of acrobatics . . . and all for a purpose. I can suggest this purpose by describing the entrance of the lover. . . . Meierhold places the lady at the foot of a tin slide, the lover...
...Inspiration," he asserted, "Is not a method of creating a character, situation or place which is entirely hypothetical; it is rather an imaginative seizure in which the mind of the poet extends, arranges, or blends the information which he has obtained from his actual contact with the world. It is by these extensions and adaptations of his material to fit his own personality-his interpretation of life-that the quality of a man's work is judged...
...hearty is Dr. George B. Winter of Washington University school of dentistry, St. Louis. Like his confrere, Dr. Winter has been a relentless scholar. The object of his study for eighteen years has been the impacted third molar. No cruel chiseling of the tooth is Dr. Winter's method. From X-rays he builds a painstaking campaign of removal...