Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last a concrete difference between a Harvard and Radcliffe student has been discovered. It is in the method of carrying books to class...
...Radcliffe species, however, invariably use the bent arm method, pressing the textbooks to their heart, as it were. They regard the books as the dearest things they have on earth, and take pride in carrying a goodly assortment of volumes about...
...plants and equipment with replacement costs. He was willing to write-off all past write-ups discovered by the Federal Trade Commission in its six-year power investigation. As for Government competition, all he asked was a fair break-such things as the use of the same accounting method for public power projects as the Federal Power Commission prescribes for private companies, definite division of territory for rural electrification, cessation of Federal gifts to cities wanting their own distribution systems, purchase of private systems at prices to be set by impartial tribunals. And to forestall the chaotic break...
Since Physarum produces "fruits" at intervals averaging 14 days (at the end of which it turns into hard, seedlike cells), it is formally classified as a plant. Yet the new little fruits, bundles of protoplasm, have powers of locomotion like an animal. They move by the classical method of protoplasmic streaming-protruding part of their body, pulling the rest after the protrusion...
...Operating as private membership associations, exchanges have always administered their affairs in much the same manner as private clubs. For a business so vested with public interest, this traditional method has become archaic...