Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried 250 different makeups, had each screen-tested, before he was satisfied his 32 years added up to 75. Then he convinced skeptical and hitherto unknown Co-Directors Alexander Zarkhi, 32, and Joseph Heifetz, 28, that he was the only man for the role. A follower of the Stanislavsky method of living a part, he so thoroughly transformed himself into a tottering ancient that his friends were alarmed. Most successful Soviet film since Chapayev, Baltic Deputy has been seen by 80 million Russians since its release last spring...
Smiling like the secretive Cheshire cat, the tall, dark and handsome medical director of the American Birth Control League, Dr. Eric M. Matsner, arrived in Manhattan from London last week. In his mind was a new method of rendering women infertile for several weeks at a time. In a box which he carried were 18 South African clawed toads...
...with the War Victor left its competitors behind. In 1920 it expanded by building a second plant in West Nashville, near Tennessee's phosphate rock quarries. Until then the standard means of extracting phosphorus consisted of mixing the ore with sulphuric acid. In 1922, however, a better method came into general use- mixing ore and sand in electric furnaces at high temperatures. This put August Kochs in a pretty fix, for competitors had tied up the southern power supply. Undaunted, Chemist Kochs adapted the blast furnace used by the steel industry, spent $500,000 in experimentation before Victor finally...
...infantile paralysis. Half-a-dozen teams operated in Omaha last week. These teams soon found that metal tipped atomizers are apt to Injure the nostrils of young children, who jerk and sneeze when treated. Children of ten to twelve don't squirm so much. In general, however, the method is still too bothersome and unproved for most doctors and parents to attempt, unless Dr. Peet, as he is trying to do, invents a flexible-tipped atomizer. Recent expert opinions on the question...
...probable that the finding will affect the traditional method of eclipse observations, leading astronomers to make more use of airplanes to carry their instruments up into the substratosphere...