Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undecided, Although utility men do not contest the right of the Government to fix their rates, they argue lustily about the method used to value their properties for rate-making purposes. Instead of reproduction cost the New Deal would like to have valuations based on what the properties would have cost under a policy of ''prudent investment." For obvious reasons the utilities as a rule favor the former, upheld in a series of Supreme Court decisions since 1898. For reasons equally obvious the New Deal has been trying to get the utilities, either through persuasion or compulsion...
...case he finds the suspect, he is uncertain as to the method of approaching him, but intimated that he will not call the police until the man has admitted his identity...
...year examinations less than three weeks away and with the time at hand when the heads of the various departments should be preparing questions, one might stop and wonder how an examination is created, and what is more to the student's interest, how it is corrected. Any haphazard method of organizing the little white sheet that is to test the interpretation of knowledge gained and assimilated over the period of four months is as much to be lamented as a similar method of estimating the worth of that interpretation. Although it is quite easy to ask and correct questions...
...replacing the relatively crude, haphazard, and extremely expensive method of improving vacuum tube performance by trial and error, hitherto universally applied, Chaffee is believed to have opened the way to much wider development and use of the electric "valves...
...another method, Chaffee has developed apparatus by which the power tube operation can be tested at the ordinary, household, current frequency of 60 cycles, for which electrical measuring instruments are standard and extremely accurate...