Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Charles Benjamin Bohn of Detroit's Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp. announced that his company, after five years of research, had discovered a method, technically ingenious and commercially feasible, for producing virgin aluminum from alunite. Alunite is a whitish ore containing potassium aluminum sulphate...
...alone reveal the method, President Bohn would not even name the researchers who developed it. But he was eager to tell how he had started to build a $50,000 "pilot plant" in Detroit to iron out minor production kinks, and how he would later erect a big producing plant in Utah, which has the most extensive alunite deposits in the U. S. The Utah plant, said President Bohn, would bring his investment in the alunite process close to $10,000,000. That was an impressive figure, and observers saw no reason to question...
...study in America. A year of study in the country of his choice would give the student a knowledge of the people and their customs, and a profound and intimate command of the field. With such training the language requirements could be met sincerely, not by the current method of a hasty interview with a cramming school. The cultural aspects of foreign travel and residence need no elucidation here, but rather a more general participation by American college students...
...called voluntary lectures to be delivered this year by younger members of the Government department directs attention to the long steps which Harvard has taken during the past two years toward a recognition of the tutorial system as at least equal in importance to the lecture as a method of college instruction. It will be profitable at this time, to review the steps...
...Band Play Dixie it is the almost untranslatable "and de doctor can't do me no good"-an expression denoting joyful determination, usually in the direction of gin or gals. For fittingly strong words to express astonishment: "Well, do, my Redeemer!"* Sample of Author Bradford's method of writing dialect: "And Valivostop! Dat's whar us stopped at to load on some coal. Dey got some drinkin' licker made out'n rice and bramboo and stuff named vockster. And drunk you? I tuck jest two drinks and dey had to tote me on de ship...