Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inevitably the Hitler Government must win-100%. Characteristically Chancellor Hitler did not threaten last week to re-arm in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler's technique of assault, highly developed during his struggle for power in Germany, consists in alternate hammer blows and conciliatory gestures. This method kept his German political foes in turmoil, helped to paralyze their resistance until the Nazis were able at last to smash, dissolve and confiscate the property and funds of all rival German parties. Last week, trying out his technique on France, Chancellor Hitler let it be known that the "real...
...perfect that the great Jehovah will touch it into life, even as Venus made the marble Galatea into vibrant, palpitating life. The surgeon must, with fingers that are dexterous beyond compare and with mind that plans, see the completed result in his imagination. He models and commands the method, carries out the procedure, puts the parts into perfect apposition, but God knits the scar. "He sews severed arteries that they may carry their crimson torrent without leak and without hindrance. The delicate nerve must be spliced to give the return of welcome sensation to palsied arm. He sews the viscera...
...operates on a diseased abdomen he blocks off healthy organs with sheets of rubber and packs cotton wicks into the hollows left by organs removed. As the patient's insides heal and connective tissues fill in the cavities, Dr. Coffey hauls out the wicks one by one. His method helps insure against peritonitis. Appendicitis. Mortality from appendicitis is 50% higher today than it was 15 years ago, deplored Professor Alton Ochsner of New Orleans. One person dies in the U. S. every 29 minutes from appendicitis. Before the age of 50 four times as many people die from appendicitis...
...Alcohol injected into certain nerves as they emerge from the spine relieves pain without otherwise affecting the patient. Therefore, Dr. Perry Maurice Lichtenstein, Manhattan criminologist, uses the method to speed the cure of narcotic addicts. The alcohol quiets the nausea, neuralgia and other symptoms which the addict surfers while quitting his habit...
...current New England Quarterly, Professor E. K. Rand has undertaken to investigate and annotate Harvard's earliest commencement exercises. He has entitled his article, "Liberal Education in Seventeenth-Century Harvard," utilizing this apparent anachronism as a graceful method of introducing the vir liberalis and the trivium-quadrivium. The burden of Professor Rand's writing is to outline the development of those courses which President Dunster classed as "Technologicae," a term derived from the Greek technai and meaning, according to Professor Rand, the "arts as a whole." What would otherwise have been a pedantic display of mossy notes becomes, under Professor...