Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of tritium, triple-weight hydrogen, is different. Its discovery was foreshadowed by the somewhat dubious magneto-optic method which anticipated the identification of deuterium. Then, in England, Lord Rutherford bounced deutons (deuterium nuclei) together, got protons and something of mass three which he thought was either an unknown form of helium or triple-weight hydrogen. Cautious Lord Rutherford took his time ascertaining that the new particles were both helium and tritium. Meantime Dr. Merle Antony Tuve and his associates at the Carnegie Institution of Washington had identified tritium particles by measuring their mass as indicated by the curvature...
...trump the first trick scores 40, all others 30. Thus it is now possible to score a game (100 points) in three hands of one no-trump each-impossible under the old method of scoring odd tricks at 30, even ones...
Than Renoir, no man more profoundly influenced the group of painters who founded modern painting in the U. S. William J. Glackens has assiduously imitated Renoir most of his life. George Wesley Bellows and Robert Henri adopted Renoir's method of painting coal-black, "shoe-button eyes." Childe Hassam still experiments with Renoir's dappled color...
...strike on April 12th. This is not so. These organizations sent unofficial delegates to the Anti-War Conference last fall, and later took an unofficial part on the Continuations Committee. No support is being given to the strike of April 12th, because these organizations do not believe in the method which is being used. George R. Farnham '36. President, The Harvard Unity Club...
...Darkness is an emotional tale. For the first 50 pages it reads like a minority report on literary atmosphere ; then the action quickens, the figures take on clearer outline. Author Bishop's mist- clearing method is deliberate: the gradually opening eye which observes and slowly understands the story is that of a young boy. Observer-narrator is John, youngest member of a Virginia family whose blood is proud but queer. His grandfather is an eccentric lawyer. His dead father was a doctor who painted strange pictures. His Uncle Charlie has been a wildly attractive scapegrace from his youth...