Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes from the University knowing--and caring--only that he has laughed until he is weak. "Nothing Sacred" is very much like "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." Miss Lombard is the girl from a small town who goes to New York for the time of her life (although the method of getting her there is fake radium poisoning in this case) and Mr. March is the reporter who sells her to the city and eventually falls in love with here Walter Connolly is the big, blustering newspaper editor concerned with scoops and the glory of his profession. The whole...
...method is called parthenocarpy (Greek parthenos, virgin; carpos, fruit). The chemical is indoleacetic acid, or heteroauxin, a famed plant hormone which has been used to stimulate root-sprouting and growth (TIME, Oct.11). Heteroauxin can be made synthetically at a cost of about $3 per ounce. One ounce in very dilute solution is enough to treat hundreds of plants. At the Department of Agriculture's experiment station in Beltsville, Md., Frank Easter Gardner and Ezra Jacob Kraus of the University of Chicago sprayed holly blooms with heteroauxin, obtained berries. These parthenocarpic fruits contained no trace of embryo, but the plant...
...under the gentle massage of washing the fibres swell, relax and partially return to their original shorter dimensions. This phenomenon has pained no one so much as the shirt-wearing male -that is, until 1928. That year Sanford Lockwood Cluett of Cluett, Peabody & Co. invented Sanforizing-a mechanical method of preshrinking cloth back to its true dimensions. No wearer of even a $2 shirt now need tug apoplectically to button his collar after it has been washed...
...most U. S. readers, England's Oxford Poets-W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, Michael Roberts, Christopher Isherwood, Rex Warner - are lumped together not only because they are contemporaries, but for: 1) their viewpoint (a sort of oblique communism), and 2) their literary method. Recently, however, the Oxford Poets have shown signs of setting up separate literary establishments; their differences are developing faster than their similarities. If this tendency continues at the present rate, it is not inconceivable that in another decade their similarities will be no closer than those of Harvard's famed...
...president of Commonwealth & Southern, big utility holding company, is willing to change the method of figuring power rates to conform with the President's insistence that utilities property valuations should be based on (1 cost of production, 2 cost of reproduction, 3 what was prudently and honestly invested, 4 estimates of tax experts, 5 the cost-plus plan...