Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepare a cavity for a filling. On grounds that Columbia's University Patents, Inc. wanted to patent the desensitizer Dr. Hartman, alarmed by what might happen to his professional reputation, obdurately refused to answer a multitude of pleas which dentists made to him for his preparation and method (TIME...
...league, formed through the efforts of Major Forbes, McGill's Athletic director, and Holcomb York, Yale Hockey coach, was praised last night by Joe Stubbs as a convenient method for making the international games at once more significant and interesting. He pointed out that the new plan won't require any more travelling than is done at present...
Three Ways- There are three ways to be a collector. Caring nothing about art, one can buy famed rarities at great prices as the cheapest and quickest method of getting a reputation for culture. One can care so much for pictures that one is willing to go without many necessities in order to buy more & more. One can consider one's collection a sort of private investment, to provide artists with a little money to paint more & better pictures. It was perfectly impossible for shy, unassuming Abby Rockefeller to be any kind of a collector but the last...
Heavier than any other element except uranium, protoactinium is radioactive. It is 25% rarer than radium in pitchblende. One ton of that mother ore was reduced to extract a half gram of protoactinium oxide. In a phosgene chlorinating bath this was transposed to a chloride. Using the method evolved by General Electric's famed Irving Langmuir. Dr. von Grosse spread the chloride on a tungsten filament in a vacuum, heated the filament, boiled off the chlorine, obtained his bit of pure protoactinium...
Snow-planning has become a popular winter sport at the leading New England airports. Started in Maine, where it was a necessity for air commerce during the winter months, the new method of flying first caught the public fancy by the success Admiral Byrd had with it on his Antarctic expedition...