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Word: methodism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break the stranglehold which senile politicians have so long maintained on public affairs." The man to do it. he said, is Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, leader of Britain's Fascist Black Shirts, a man '"willing to act with the same directness of purpose and energy of method as Mussolini and Hitler have displayed." Predicted Lord Rothermere who has long felt like playing Dictator himself: ''There will be a prolonged swing either to the Right or Left. At the next vital election, Britain's survival as a great power will depend on the existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Rothermere to Mosley | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...that life is life. The heroine knows it too, but she has the old hourgeois respectability on her mind, and keeps pretty stiff-backed. Young "Dynamite," the aggressor, tries all manner of persuasions, from the argument that "you haven't lived till you've lived" to the simpler muscular method. And despite his inordinate skill, it takes just two acts (out of two) for the lady to make up her mind. Your cousin from out West would call it "pretty raw," but it really is just a fine, clean portrayal of young passion, more freely translated than usual into...

Author: By K. D. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...contain everything in a given department from, say, the lower reaches of Slavic 4 to the higher reaches of Indic Philology would then no longer exist quite so much for the benefit of one student to the exclusion of all the potential intermediate beneficiaries. However, the most effective method of accomplishing this result in its entirely would be to stock the library with surplus examination papers, providing appropriate pigeon holes or boxes for them. True, the unbound papers would not wear so well as the present books, but this fact would automatically assure that obsolescence and retirement would go hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER FUGUE | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...became eligible for the big tournament. However, since only 20% of the field ever reached match play, the second objection remained until last week when the U. S. G. A., meeting in Manhattan, radically simplified the championship plan to six straight days of match play, similar to the British method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Championship Golf | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...allowing them to sit at separate tables and imbibe. The majority of Yale undergraduates under eighteen, which limit the Connecticut law stipulates as the dead line, is considerably less than those under twenty-one so that this system would be more successful than at Harvard which finds that this method causes too much of a division among students and separates the tutors from the undergraduates. Everything points for a successful handling of the problem here; may we have the opportunity to try it! The Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Better Late Than Never | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

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