Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychologists, making good use of a rare opportunity for laboratory study of normal, intelligent men, believe that the method they developed for appraising candidates could be usefully applied to candidates for responsible; social and administrative jobs. Possible applications: Annapolis and West Point candidates, State Department career men, foreign representatives of business firms...
...Westinghouse research scientists, in the process of making, testing and rejecting uranium for lamp filaments, had developed an efficient method for extracting and refining uranium. Their metal was the purest available, and an occasional dribble of thumb-size pellets filled the modest requirements of college and research laboratories. Then the telephone call came. Dr. Harvey C. Rentschler and Dr. John W. Harden were not dismayed...
...believed that in the Democratic Society there is great room for experiment, for the method of trial and error, for the free play of economic and social innovation, including risk and error...
...Army's Snow Institute for Flyers perfected a method of packing snow cover, more than three feet thick, firm enough to sustain airplanes and even railways...
...Brooklyn show's best things-a molded gold flask (see cut)-was made by the cire-perdue (lost wax) method, which the ancient Egyptians-and Benvenuto Cellini-also used. The flask was modeled in wax, then covered with clay. When the clay was baked, the wax melted and was drawn off. Molten gold was then poured into the baked clay mold...