Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...champion of ladies' bands am I, but unless the female method of tone production tillers radically from that of the male it seems almost libelous to attribute drooling to their horn players (TIME, March 25 ). Closer observation would show you that it is condensed moisture from the breath rather than saliva which accumulates within the tubing of brass instruments. As for ascribing the difficulty of French horn playing to the necessity of passing ' breath "evenly through some 16 feet of tubing, a matter of sustaining tone, a more fundamental problem is that of even starting the designated tone...
...Harvard administration has felt itself unable to meet the H.A.A.'s constantly recurring deficit. Hence, it was a necessity to cut the expenses somewhere along the line, and six minor sports were chosen for the sacrifice. No one can blame the university for such an action, provided no better method of economy was to be found. Yet undeniably, the loss is a great...
...nerve-racking to his henchmen, of asking them first what they think. They may try to guess what he wants them to think, but inevitably Stalin succeeds in digging out much mental meat. He then sums up, gives his decision, and with sighs of relief the henchmen agree. This method, adopted by Mussolini from Machiavelli's II Principe, Stalin evolved from his innate Oriental flair for despotism. Charming when he chooses, Joseph Stalin, big-boned and big-mustached, last week asked small-boned, small-mustached Anthony Eden what he thought of Adolf Hitler. Thenceforth they got on famously. Snatches...
Died. Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, 84, inventor of the Schafer method of artificial respiration (by placing the subject prone, applying pressure at regular intervals to the lower back); in North Berwick, Scotland...
...time, the Committee's action will be valuable in the long run only insofar as each Department responds to the growing demand for introductory courses more general than technical. In the sciences in particular, a course concerned primarily with the history of science, and a study of the scientific method would be immensely valuable, the more so in a world suffering from a surfeit of loose, wishful thinking...