Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since he did not propose increasing at once the amounts paid out for old age benefits, Mr. Morgenthau had to take the one other method of keeping the reserve fund down. Granting that payroll taxes might be slowing Recovery, he proposed either to reduce the rate of increase in old-age levies (scheduled to rise next January from 1% to 1½% on employers and employes), or to postpone any increase at all until 1943. That seemed just as pleasing to Congress, just as appeasing to business, as correcting a bad boner in the Social Security...
Nevertheless, the German press this week began carrying stories of attacks by Poles on German women and children, the all-too-familiar German method of preparatory propaganda before expanding the Reich frontiers. The rolling stock of the Polish Railway Administration was removed from Danzig and environs and "more than 10,000 troops" were moved into Gdynia, Polish port twelve miles from Danzig. The Polish standing Army was increased to some 400,000 men and the Polish Army journal, Polska Zbrojna, published a defiant editorial labeled We Are Ready...
After the recent National Intercollegiate wrestling bouts, the various coaches assembled and passed a recommendation that the point-system of judging matches be adopted as our national standard. The present scoring method, with its lack of definite standards for decisions, can be discarded if the National Wrestling Rules Committee adopts this new point-system, which has enjoyed unqualified success in the Big Ten conference...
There are several weaknesses in the present scoring method. First of all, it gives too much weight to the personal opinion of the referee, who, lacking hard-and-fast rules, usually sends close bouts into an overtime session. Also, under present rules, it is possible for a man to win without displaying any aggressive wrestling. Such a wrestler could gain an early time advantage and then merely stall or hang on for dear life until the end of the bout...
Chief boon to the workers in the field in the Pickering collection of plates compiled by the Observatory some 40 years ago. These plates, unused because of lack of equipment, now have become the most valuable method of approach to the previously insoluble problem...