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Word: methodism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel kind. It will be a secret ballot. It will be widely accepted as a reflection of the state of the public mind with respect to the policies of the Roosevelt Administration because it will be conducted by the Literary Digest, which in forecasting election results by this method has shown that it is remarkably accurate in telling how the American nation will vote. There would seem to be no reason why it should not be equally successful in revealing what the American people think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/26/1934 | See Source »

...heels of mob violence by the produce truckers' strike, in Minneapolis gives evidence that a new phase of the strike situation is rapidly coming into far among labor unions. Violence reminiscent of the Pullman and Steel strikes of the '90s, now bids fair to become the accepted method of protest among labor organizations. For the first time in many months the interventions. For the state militia has been requested by the local authorities, police being unable to cope with the situation. Yet whether or not the strikers are justified in their demands for higher pay cannot be accurately determined considering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 5/25/1934 | See Source »

...subject still shrouded in the dust of City Square, but the idea seems to have been that the denting or the sleek gray sides of the "Karlsruhe" and the possible laying out of a few sons of the Fatherland by well-placed brick-bats would be a peculiarly suitable method of getting Herr Hitler to do something. That supposedly intelligent students of two of the country's leading educational institutions should affiliate themselves with a demonstration that is certain to awake no popular sympathy, seems remarkable to us, when so many avenues of propaganda and organized protest are open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/24/1934 | See Source »

...present method of initiation into the higher realms of scholarship, employing the adviser who has only over one week-end to formulate programs for some twenty-odd men is rather obviously insufficient. Not even the most able land conscientious man can correctly estimate the ability of so many men in so short a time while the recluse greybeards inhabiting the Law School and the Semitic Museum possess such a remarkable lack of knowledge of their job that they do not even get to bat. Even older men who are in constant communication with the undergraduate department in their own fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO CROW IN WISDOM | 5/23/1934 | See Source »

Bellamy, in his book "Looking Backward," predicted that some day paper utensils would be used in cooking with electrical, heat originating on the outside of the utensil itself. Within the past year scientists have discovered a method of cooking precisely in the manner described by the lean, students New Englander...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widow of Prophet of Modern Miracles Visits New York | 5/23/1934 | See Source »

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