Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That," snapped the inquisitor, "clearly was intended to indicate a method of evading the law, wasn't it, Mr. Pinkerton...
Like ostriches, cassowaries, children and certain abnormal adults, dogs sometimes develop an appetite for indigestible objects. Cause of this is usually a calcium deficiency in the blood. The usual method of relief has been to slice open the dog's stomach. Last week in Manhattan. Chief Surgeon Raymond Jesup Garbutt of the S. P. C. A. demonstrated a new bloodless way which he has invented to retrieve canine inedibles. Thrusting a 36-in. forceps down the throat of a bull terrier, Dr. Garbutt removed successively an 8-oz. lead sinker, a wrist watch, a sparkplug, a pair of dice...
...part of the Student Council's investigation of the minor and intramural sports question a committee of three students will make a survey Monday and Tuesday of the method used by Yale in handling the situation it was learned yesterday...
...method of leaving mail in the box is the same as in an incinerator. The postman was undoubtedly startled when the entire movable part of the box, including the mechanism for keeping strangers' arms out, came off en masse. But he was not to be daunted by what he thought was a new device of the Maintenance Department, and handed it to Miss Piscopo with a man-of-the world expression, saying, "You'd better keep this where people can't take...
...executives know what labor is up to, better systems can be devised to find out; many factories have them already. The half million dollars a year that, for example, General Motors spent on detectives bred some of the hostility and suspicion lying behind the strike. The waste of this method sticks up like a sore thumb along side the inexpensive welfare activities of such companies as Endicott Johnson, whose workers are among the most contented in the country. Productive efficiency as well as morale goes out the window when spics sneak in the side door. How long it will...