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Word: methodism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radical-Socialists are neither radical nor socialistic. And Harvard's Temporary Student Employment Plan is not temporary. That it was founded as a one-year temporary expedient (as its name still indicates) and has lived to see the passage of seven years, demonstrates the merit and success of this method of student assistance, argues loudly for its continuance and considerable extension...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN BEHALF OF T. S. E. | 10/22/1938 | See Source »

...suggestion to the architectural profession and the architectural schools of the country and as a report of one experience in teaching modern architecture. It can be seen that this is not a way to destroy the past for the sake of building something new in its place but a method that aims to utilize all experience gathered for a way out of the past and out of some of its difficulties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Design School Has Exhibit Showing, Explaining all Modern Architecture | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

Widener's new call cards with their mystifying holes and clipped corners are a part of the system installed during the summer to speed up the library's method of keeping record of borrowed books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener's New Filing System Makes Card Speed-up Possible | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

This book, whose purpose was to start a new method of thinking so that eventually people might understand each other better, was revolutionary, obscure even to specialists. Ever since then Richards and his followers have tried to make themselves clearer. The more they write, the harder it is for laymen to understand them. Interpretation in Teaching is no plate glass window even for savants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Love & Motor Car | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...through, these slices of light are recombined into a single band, suitable for analysis, by a cylindrical lens. The Bowen image-slicer makes it possible to use 50% to 75% of the available light, instead of 5% to 10%. Physicist Rudolph Meyer Langer of Caltech declared that "the new method ranks with . . . the very greatest improvements in astronomical technique in several generations." In connection with Caltech's 200-inch telescope, which is expected to start action two or three years hence, the image-slicer may help clear up the mystery of the Expanding Universe. Dr. Hubble, who collected most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Image-Slicer | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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