Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each & every automobile dealer in the U. S. last week went a fat little pocket manual to put a stop to this competitive method of price cutting. As an appendage of the automobile dealers' code under NRA, the manual listed the maximum trade-in allowance on every make and model of car. No dealer could offer a customer more without violating the code. risking punishment. The prices listed were compiled from nation-wide second-hand sales by the National Automobile Dealers Association, which issues its Official Used Car Guide on prices each month...
Sample of Karl and the 20th Century's style, method: "In Switzerland that same evening, at Kiental, where a conference of left-wing socialists was being held, Lenin gave a renewed demonstration of the way in which the imperialist war could be transformed into a class war. In the United States there was being founded the Allied Chemical & Dye Company, a combine of the chemical manufacturers of the Land of the Almighty Dollar. At Philadelphia, Frederick W. Taylor died after being ill for nine days with an attack of pneumonia, on his fifty-ninth birthday, and two hours after...
...content of the dollar below fifty cents, nor does he so desire. No one denies that we dare not go back to the conditions of the last fifty years of capitalism, to the business policy of an agrarian age continued into a machine age. Therefore, we must discover new methods of handling the economic condition of our country, and we must adopt a new monetary system. But we must not be carried into unlimited inflation, and other unsafe or quack methods, by thoughtless excitement. The 'New Deal' offers us the necessary kind of monetary system, and the best possible solution...
...stretch can it be said to fulfill even the spirit of the requirement. Its work consists in the answering of a series of questions, with the help of yearbooks and atlases. The questions are those of economics and sociology; the answers are those of economics and sociology; the method of answering them combines economics, sociology, and geography...
...advantage of giving tutorial work a definite standing in the curriculum by substituting it for course work. This opens the way, moreover, for an eventual shifting of regular course work to the field of tutorial, in accordance with the abilities of the individual student. The flowering of the tutorial method will come when lecture courses, and especially the less instructive ones, are crowded out of the curriculum, and their place taken by tutorial. The suggested method of tutorial work makes way for this trend. In addition, this privileged system preserves the finest fruits of the tutorial method, while...