Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there exists a danger or preoccupation of war, it is useless to attempt to have the States disarm or reduce the armaments; if there exist grave injustices in the solution of problems of international affairs and no peaceful method is seen to make them disappear, it is useless to dissuade the victims thereof to cause justice to be respected by force, if they have it; if the nations by virtue of their own excesses or because they are exposed to the mistakes of others, must defend their economy and their financial balance, and deem it necessary...
Copoy, at Harvard since 1892 and active until 1928, established the "cult of Copey" soon after he started teaching. His method of instruction in English composition, carried on for the most part in his rooms at Hollis 15, occupied once by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and by Charles William Eliot, was described by Walter Lippmann '10, as a "catch-adcatch-can wresting match." Lippmann writing in the special CRIMSON issue released upon the occasion of Copey's 75th birthday, said of him: "Copey was not a professor teaching a crowd in a class room. He was a very distinct person...
...women, recommended 25? a head as a minimum tariff for Filipino females. Next day, while Filipino suffragettes sputtered with indignation that a tax should go with the right to vote, the National Assembly passed a bill which evaded the question of the poll tax by substituting a different method of identifying voters. If President Quezon signs it, Filipino voters will hereafter put their thumbprints on their ballots. The prints will then serve to settle anticipated arguments about fraudulent voting...
...this proportion it can be detected. Thus if a man weighing 160 lb. drinks 20 drops of heavy water, the excess of deuterium will show in his urine. Biologists have been quick to see that, with two kinds of hydrogen atoms as distinct as red and green, a neat method was available for tracing the course of hydrogen-bearing compounds in body processes. Scientists in Germany have already found by this means that half the water which they drank stayed in their bodies nine days, although some was excreted...
Twenty-five years ago, one of the major insect menaces in the U. S. was the cattle tick. The entire southern part of the U. S. was under tick quarantine. Damage every year throughout the U. S. amounted to about $45,000,000. But, working with its usual methodical efficiency, the Department of Agriculture practically wiped out the cattle tick by the only sure method: dipping in an arsenical solution. Only a few counties in Texas and six in southern Florida are still under quarantine. Trouble there is that ticks are carried not only by cattle, horses, mules and sheep...