Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet, which was held on July 20, was marred by a misunderstanding as to the method of scoring and first reports gave the Yale-Harvard forces the victory on the strength of their second and third places, but official decision on the night of the meet divided the honors between the English and Americans, only first places being counted...
...caved in, been repaired? Was the image the actual corpse of Lenin? Last week Comrade Zbarsky indignantly answered such calumnies: "All the legends circulated abroad concerning a decaying condition of the body are false. On the contrary, we are now more than ever certain of the infallibility of our method." Thereupon it was announced that by October the Lenin tomb would be air-conditioned. Zbarsky had been fearful lest on warm days currents of air set in motion by throngs of pilgrims prove "injurious" to the body. After the conditioning equipment is installed it was thought that Lenin could safely...
...Gasoline was first made by boiling oil, next by squeezing gasoline vapor out of natural gas ("casing-head process"), later by distillation of crude oil ("cracking"), finally by hydrogenation. The Phillips process was polymerization-formation of heavy molecules from light ones with heat, pressure, catalysts (chemical activators). By this method lightweight derivatives formerly wasted or diverted to by-products are made into high-grade fuel. Trade papers pointed out that if all gaseous hydrocarbons produced in cracking were utilized by the Phillips patented process, the extra gasoline output would be about 1,000,000,000 gal. per year...
...Massillon, Ohio had the lowest rate (3.3) last year, why Concord, N.H. had the highest (41.4), Dr. Hoffman has no idea. Shooting continues to be the most popular U. S. method of self-destruction (38.4%). About half as popular are hanging, poisons, gas. Not popular are drowning, slashing or stabbing, jumping from high places. However, ''high places seem to have peculiar fascinations for suicides, and, broadly speaking, the frequency of such suicides is increasing." A new suicide tendency which disconcerts Dr. Hoffman is "the apparent increase in the number of suicides following murder...
...Soon as the news reached Manhattan, Memorial Hospital, U. S. headquarters for cancer information, warned: "Lead therapy was abandoned at Memorial Hospital after extensive experience. The general toxic effects were found to be too severe. It can be stated that no method of combating the chronic toxic effects of lead has been found. . . . No new results of newer lead therapy methods seem to justify raising new hopes...