Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelt is keeping the unbalanced budget alive as a method of expanding purchasing power by promising to balance it in 1936, by implying that it is a temporary device, while yet in the same breath asking to increase the public debt by six billion dollars during the current year. If he actually does regard the device as a temporary one, then his astuteness is only unconscious, not Machiavellian, and in this case, it is entirely possible that he means to defiate purchasing power some day by balancing the budget at the expense of a future prosperity...
...beverage it is necessary for the student to have a blue card signed by his House Master, stating that the bearer is over 21, and entitling him to "special privileges of the dining halls." These cards are non-transferable and are liable to cancellation at any time. The method of releasing them is not the same in all the Houses. In some, the cards have been put in the mail boxes of all students over 21, in others it is necessary to get the cards from the House secretaries, and have them signed by the House Master at some hour...
...next Living Buddha. In preparation for taking office upon reaching his majority, the new Living B, Idha would be trained in a monastery. His family would immediately be raised to high rank, cared for by the State. In the case of the Dalai Lama, the method of choice was to confront the infant candidates with trinkets and toys among which were placed relics made holy by the previous Living Buddha. The child who touched a relic became the Dalai Lama. But no such method was used when, half a century ago, a Dalai Lama died. Instead, the abbot...
Aside from the general method, the book reveals more specific handling, equally satisfying in its way. The introduction of characters, in particular, is accomplished with a fine subtlety. One is given brief scraps of conversation from an individual; other characters refer at odd moments to the same person. One has but a scrappy and incomplete knowledge of his nature. Then, nicely dovetailed, there appears some short description or conversation which unites all previously known and adds to it with economy, so that the reader emerges with a friendship and knowledge of the character in question which he hardly remembers having...
...Side by side with such brilliant prose as that in which De Quincey illumined the mysteries of laudanum, we find the halting periods of Kavanaugh, whose bravery saved the British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies, condemnations, countermands in the nick of time, secret sleigh journeys on the Baltic ice, wolves, and various other escapes from famine, sword and fire...