Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exiles want to return to Spain. Stories of dire reprisals awaiting them in Spain have reached the refugee camps by grapevine. Typical of how news travels among the refugees was the method adopted by a recent fugitive from Catalonia. Forbidden by French authorities to make a speech in the camp, he drew a map of Spain in the sand. Inside the outline he sketched a firing squad pointing their rifles at a group of civilians. No refugee misunderstood the man's meaning...
Considerably more dramatic than Crisis in its subject matter, The 400,000,000 is photographically more exciting. Its principal defect is diffuseness in narrative method, overenthusiasm for old newsreel shots. Effective sequence: farmers, summoned by a Chinese Paul Revere on a horse, picking up rifles as they leave their rice fields...
...altered just enough to be workable. The trick sounded good to Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. of Cambridge, Mass., which was already using latex to make low-cost balloons ($2.25) for high-altitude meteorological and cosmic ray observation. The company's researchers set to work devising a commercial method for wrapping poultry and meat in latex...
...have been forthcoming from the United States State Department. Healthy progress away from isolation and toward a constructive program of cooperation has been the theme of all Secretary Hull has done. But closer scrutiny of the high-sounding diplomatic terms in which the statement was couched; comparison with the method used in the now-famous frontier-on-the-Rhine statement; and understanding of the international temper--only temporarily one of apathetic resignation--into which it was injected, all point to Sumner Welles' statement as one of the most important single incidents since Munich...
Agreeing with Hooton, Frederick L. Hisaw, professor of Zoology, said that biology lies at the roots of society. "Our entire life is based on biological laws. Our government arises from biological needs." Hisaw likewise pointed out the necessity of acquiring the scientific method of approach...