Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forthright, plainspoken, sharp-eyed teacher who preferred playing the cello to painting, warned his students that he could read their thoughts from the colors they used. His method was to place a model on the beach, so that the brilliant background of sky and water forced students to see the head merely as a spot of color. He then gave students a big, broad-edged putty knife and a square of building board, and urged them to study color rather than drawing. "Painting is just getting one spot of color in relation to another spot of color," he would...
...ordeal by fire were, however, disappointed. Dr. Lowell at 81 still thinks, for example, despite the contrary findings of modern psychologists, that Latin, Greek and mathematics are the most valuable subjects for training youngsters to think. He believes it is better for a boy to learn French by formal methods in the U. S. than by talking with Frenchmen in Paris, for a boy who learns by the second method "has had no more mental discipline than a little street Arab in a foreign town." Still stanchly Tory, he sums up his social views: "Truly the future has less...
...three-piece set, which sells for $45.85, rents for two weeks for $6. In between trips all bags are sterilized and reconditioned so that Masterson expects them to last longer than the 150 days he allowed in figuring depreciation. Although he stresses renting, he has apparently discovered an ingenious method of retailing luggage: so far 10% of his clients have decided to apply rental charges and deposits towards purchase of his bags...
...Magazine Editor Henry Goddard Leach's dinner table. These were big, celebrity-peppered parties. CBS plans to entertain only four guests each week, to draw them from all economic levels, all shades of political opinion. "We hope with The People's Platform to demonstrate the scientific method of reaching conclusions," explained Educator Bryson...
...Agreed on a standard method of bank examinations...