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Word: methodism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigated they found no major revolt but a few Gold Shirts taking pot shots at police and Federal troops. After a day of skirmishing three Gold Shirts, one policeman, lay dead, 25 Gold Shirts were jailed. At dusk, Tamaulipas' Governor Marte R. Gómez took the Latin method of relieving tension. Alone, he strolled around the plaza at Matamoros. "It's time for the evening promenade," he purred to the cautious citizens. Soon eligible senoritas and the ardent young men joined in their usual strolls and the crisis was over. "Mexico is in a state of complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Border | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

According to the fund office, there was no definite assignment of solicitation among University employees, and the method of collection has not been revealed, but the drive spokesman said that there had been a "thorough system of canvass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $5,866.75 GIVEN UNOFFICIALLY TO COMMUNITY FUND | 2/12/1938 | See Source »

...accounting course, was offered because of popular demand. Persons desiring to take it are, however, debarred unless they have already taken Economics A. It seems hardly fair that instruction in college in this very useful subject should be limited to those who have had Economics A. If the method of teaching accounting here makes Economics A necessary to an understanding of the material, the course should be altered. People who have not had time to take it should not be prevented from getting a working knowledge of accounting by a mere regulation of this nature. Such a requirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/12/1938 | See Source »

...fifth year. His Journeyman, even though he helped direct it, will become no such theatrical Oldest Inhabitant. The story of Semon Dye (Will Geer), a rambunctious, fleshly mountebank of a traveling preacher who turns Rocky Comfort, Ga. on its ear, Journeyman'-:, gallimaufry of humors lacks bounce, its madness lacks method, its plot lacks plot. Most of the time Dye struts lungingly across the stage bellowing who he is?a helpful move for latecomers who can't read their programs in the dark, but rather trying on those who are punctual. The play slowly creeps to its big scene?a revival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...slightly bigger than the barbershop business and very slightly smaller than the jewelry business." Only $38,000,000 is spent for simple male equipment, the rest for women's. Manufacturing and retail markups ranged from 120% to 300%. "No product is very satisfactory," found FORTUNE, and "the only method yielding even a semblance of certainty was that which the subjects were taught after coming to [a] clinic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Controller | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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