Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know what he meant) that he was not far removed from constantly keeping up the features of the profession, and he wished you success as to your undertaking, and (if I use his exact words) he hoped that you would find a way to cooperate with him in such method as you would jointly find would be to the service of the helpless and afflicted within such province as you felt government should undertake. I deliver the message of the President and assure you it was a source of great pleasure that he understood I was to be here...
...final crescendo to its year's record the Council looked into the method of admission into the Houses immediately after the announcement that almost half of the Freshman applicants were rejected. It suggested that the University regulate the size, of incoming Freshman classes and left to next year's Council the task of carrying on the investigation. The consistent repetition of "investigation" within these lines is excellent proof of the Council's alertness; no student can do other than hope its example will become a precedent...
Japan's present system of peerage, of which the new Premier is a top-ranking member, numbers about 1,000, was established in 1884 as a subtle method of breaking the power of the feudal Samurai. Titles are ki (prince), ko (marquis), haku (count), shi (viscount), dan (baron). All are hereditary titles, all except the first can be conferred on commoners. There is also the equivalent of British knighthood in the Ikai or Kurai. Only in classical poetry or Gilbert & Sullivan is the Emperor called Mikado, is generally called Tenshi (Son of Heaven) or Tenno (Heavenly King...
...Treasury price is ever cut, the threat of a cut would be a potent bargaining point in negotiations for a U. S.-British trade pact or in hastening an international stabilization agreement. Either a world economic conference or a restriction scheme for gold mining is more likely as a method of meeting the gold problem than a deflationary revision in gold prices...
...bulletin of the German Railroads gives the following description of its operation: "While broadcasting does play an important function in the train telephone system, the method employed is really' a combination of ordinary and wireless telephony. There are three sending stations for the Berlin-Hamburg route, one at each end of the line, and another midway between the cities. Messages from ordinary telephones in homes, offices, or hotels, come to the nearest of these three stations by wire in the usual manner. At the stations they are taken up by a high frequency sending device and broadcast...